Unless You See Signs And Wonders, You Will Not Believe

"When the two days were over, JESUS left for Galilee.  JESUS HIMSELF said that no prophet is recognized in his own country.  Yet the Galileans welcomed HIM when HE arrived, because of all the things HE had done in Jerusalem during the Festival and which they had seen.  For they, too, had gone to the feast.

JESUS went back to Cana of Galilee where HE had changed the water into wine.  At Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill, and when he heard that JESUS had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and asked HIM to come and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

JESUS said, 'Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe!'  The official said, 'Sir, come down before my child dies.'  And JESUS replied, 'Go, your son is living.'

The man had faith in the word that JESUS spoke to him and went his way.  He was already going down the hilly road when his servants met him with this news, 'Your son has recovered!'  So he asked them at what hour the child had begun to recover, and they said to him, 'The fever left him yesterday in the afternoon about one o'clock.'  And the father realized that it was the time when JESUS told him, 'Your son is living.'  And he became a believer, he and all his family.

JESUS performed this second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee." -John 4:43-54

(JESUS reproach is directed, not to the official who will later show great faith, but to the Jews and to us.  While JESUS works miracles which confirm HIS mission, HE also stresses that we should recognize HIM by seeing and hearing HIM.  Do lovers demand miracles in order to trust one another?  Do those who follow leaders demand absolute proof?  Those who really seek the truth recognize it when it is presented to them. 

JESUS second miracle in Cana concludes this second part of the Gospel in which JESUS defines HIMSELF in relation to Jewish society and its hopes.

Now begins a new section: JESUS proclaims the work for which HE has come into this world; HIS FATHER has sent HIM to judge and to give life.  We must first believe in the Messenger of GOD.)    

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