“So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.” 49 The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!” 52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed and his whole household. 54 This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.” John 4:46-54 NKJV
Lord God and Father,
John’s gospel is different to the other three of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. They retell many of the stories of Jesus and what they witnessed themselves. They reveal their personalities. Luke the doctor the people person. Matthew a tax collector and down to earth. Mark a young man who possible spent time writing down Peters accounts of Jesus.
John was perhaps a fisherman used to reading the skies and the signs? He sees the history of Jesus as showing the way to God and the signs that proved who He was? More of a visionary. If he was also the John who also wrote Revelation?
This occasion is important to John because it proves to him that Jesus had command over even life itself. The boy was at the point of death. Jesus did not have to see, touch or pray out loud. He said it was done and it was at the moment he said it. Jesus was Lord of life and death and chose to give life. John wants us to believe Jesus is not just a miracle making celebrity or powerful man of God. He is divine, the promised Messiah. He came to give us faith and life and he says so in John 20:31.
Faith and life in Jesus. The miracle is that he speaks it into us today just as He did for the Nobleman’s son and in that moment we too receive faith and life eternal.
In Jesus name we praise, Amen.
Worship Thursday 22nd October 2026
Yes, it was written for a Salvation Army musical. First for Hosea which was later shortened and so it was then used in Jesus Folk. – He did. He came to give us life in all its fullness John 10:10).
He came to give us life in all its fullness,
He came to make the blind to see,
He came to banish death and doubt and darkness,
He came to set His people free.
He liberating love imparted,
He taught men once again to smile;
He came to bind the broken-hearted,
And God and man to reconcile.
He came to give us life in all its fullness,
He came to make the blind to see,
He came to banish death and doubt and darkness,
He came to set His people free.
We wonder why Christ came into the world
A helpless, homeless child;
We wonder why He tolerated men,
The tainted and defiled.
We wonder why! We wonder why!
The Son of God as man came down,
What does this signify?
We wonder why Christ came into the world
And let men hurt Him so;
We wonder why the Christ should have to die,
Does anybody know?
We wonder why! We wonder why!
The Son of God as man came down,
What does this signify?
Lyrics: John Gowans