4:43 過了那兩天，耶穌離了那地方，往加利利去。
4:44 因為耶穌自己作過見證說：「先知在本地是沒有人尊敬的。」
4:45 到了加利利，加利利人既然看見他在耶路撒冷過節所行的一切事，就接待他，因為他們也是上去過節。
4:46 耶穌又到了加利利的迦拿，就是他從前變水為酒的地方。有一個大臣，他的兒子在迦百農患病。
4:47 他聽見耶穌從猶太到了加利利，就來見他，求他下去醫治他的兒子，因為他兒子快要死了。
4:48 耶穌就對他說：「若不看見神蹟奇事，你們總是不信。」
4:49 那大臣說：「先生，求你趁著我的孩子還沒有死就下去。」
4:50 耶穌對他說：「回去吧，你的兒子活了！」那人信耶穌所說的話就回去了。
4:51 正下去的時候，他的僕人迎見他，說他的兒子活了。
4:52 他就問甚麼時候見好的。他們說：「昨日未時熱就退了。」
4:53 他便知道這正是耶穌對他說「你兒子活了」的時候；他自己和全家就都信了。
4:54 這是耶穌在加利利行的第二件神蹟，是他從猶太回去以後行的。
43 After the two days he left for Galilee. 44 (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) 45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there.
46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.
48 “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”
49 The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
50 “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”
The man took Jesus at his word and departed. 51 While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52 When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”
53 Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed.
54 This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.
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主耶穌並不排除行神蹟，因為對於猶太人還是有一個重要的原則：「若不看見神蹟奇事，你們總是不信。」
這也是為什麼主耶穌要在加利利的迦拿行了兩次神蹟，這次是為了醫治大臣的兒子。當然我們也可以說，大臣因為信參與了主耶穌行奇蹟的大事，正如經文說到：「耶穌對他說：『回去吧，你的兒子活了！」那人信耶穌所說的話就回去了！」
然而他回到家就有好消息：「你兒子活了！」
是的，這是主耶穌主動的作為，我們透過信心來領受！我們當感謝上帝這樣莫大的恩典，要不是祂的主動拯救，我們就無法享受永生無限！
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