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The official, based in Capernaum, may have been in service to either the tetrarch Herod Antipas or the emperor. It is not clear whether he is a Jew or Gentile. [3]The healing of the official's son follows Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan woman regarding "a spring of water welling up to eternal life” and serves as a prelude to Jesus' statement when questioned after healing the paralytic ...
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The Gospel of John does narrate the account of Jesus healing the son of a royal official at Capernaum at a distance in John 4:46–54. Some modern commentators [4] treat them as the same event. However, in his analysis of Matthew, R. T. France presents linguistic arguments against the equivalence of pais and son and considers these two separate ...
Mark 1:21–28 describes Jesus teaching and healing in the synagogue Luke 4 :16–37 describes Jesus teaching regularly in the synagogue, cf. Luke 4:23, where Jesus, speaking in the Nazareth synagogue, refers to "what has been heard done" in Capernaum.
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John 4:46–54 has a similar account at Capernaum but states that it was the son of a royal official who was healed. In both cases the healing took place at a distance. Jesus healing in the land of Gennesaret appears in Matthew 14:34–36 and Mark 6:53–56. As Jesus passes through Gennesaret all those who touch his cloak are healed.
In Galilee, Jesus returns to Cana, [21] where a certain nobleman or royal official (Greek: τις βασιλικὸς, tis basilikos) from Capernaum, 38 kilometres (24 mi) away, [22] asks him to heal his sick son.
He heals the Capernaum official's son, heals a paralytic by the pool in Bethsaida, healing a man born blind, and resurrecting Lazarus of Bethany. [29] Jesus told his followers to heal the sick [30] and stated that signs such as healing are evidence of faith. Jesus also told his followers to "cure sick people, raise up dead persons, make lepers ...