“His dignity appears in the fact that his servants have already come to meet him while he is going down, to tell him that his child lives, for "servants" are mentioned in the plural.”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 13.396
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51And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
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49The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
50Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
— John 4:51 —
52Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.