“Jesus 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.”
Jesus replied, 'You may go. Your son will live.' The man took Jesus at his word and departed. — Jesus' command to depart (implicit: go home) is a test of faith. The official accepts Jesus' word without seeing the healing, embodying precisely the faith Jesus called for in v. 48. The verb pisteuo (he believed) indicates the official's transition from sign-seeking to word-trusting faith.
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