Healing the royal official's son

This episode takes place at Cana, though the royal official's son is some distance away, at Capernaum.

A similar episode appears in Matthew 8:5–13 and Luke 7:1–10, where a Centurion's slave / servant is healed.

While Fred Craddock treats these as the same miracle, R.T. France considers them separate events.

[1][2] The official, based in Capernaum, may have been in service to either the tetrarch Herod Antipas or the emperor.

[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 at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath, "For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.