# Return to Galilee; an official’s son healed

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Date: Preparation and early ministry. A guided comparison of Gospel accounts, not a measured calendar or a claim that every parallel follows the same sequence.

Jesus returns to Galilee, where people have heard of his works. At Cana a royal official asks for his son’s healing in Capernaum; he trusts Jesus’s word and later learns when the boy recovered.

John’s official and sick son should not be silently merged with the centurion and servant in Matthew 8 and Luke 7. This card includes both the regional transition and John’s second Cana sign.

## Primary Scripture

[Matthew 4:12 (BSB)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%204%3A12&version=BSB)

4:12 When Jesus heard that John had been imprisoned, He withdrew to Galilee.

[Mark 1:14–15 (BSB)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%201%3A14%E2%80%9315&version=BSB)

1:14 After the arrest of John, Jesus went into Galilee and proclaimed the gospel of God.

1:15 “The time is fulfilled,” He said, “and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe in the gospel!”

[Luke 4:14–15 (BSB)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%204%3A14%E2%80%9315&version=BSB)

4:14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and the news about Him spread throughout the surrounding region.

4:15 He taught in their synagogues and was glorified by everyone.

[John 4:43–54 (BSB)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%204%3A43%E2%80%9354&version=BSB)

4:43 After two days, Jesus left for Galilee.

4:44 Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.

4:45 Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well.

4:46 So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.

4:47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

4:48 Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”

4:49 “Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.”

4:50 “Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed.

4:51 And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.

4:52 So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”

4:53 Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and all his household believed.

4:54 This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.

## Related Scripture

[John 2:1–11 · teaching](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%202%3A1%E2%80%9311&version=BSB)

John recalls Cana’s earlier sign while describing this later visit.

## Location evidence

John places Jesus in Cana and the sick son in Capernaum. The proposed Cana marker is Jesus’s location in the healing account; no journey between them is narrated for him here.

Event map marker: Proposed site; \[longitude, latitude\] = \[35.33877, 32.74702\]. This is a teaching marker, not an exact event venue.

Cana: Proposed site. Coordinates \[longitude, latitude\]: \[35.33877, 32.74702\]. Classification source: editorial.

[OpenBible.info: competing identifications (CC BY 4.0)](https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a031bda/cana)

Capernaum: Identified site. Coordinates \[longitude, latitude\]: \[35.57516, 32.88059\]. Classification source: rule.

[Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire](http://dare.ht.lu.se/places/33337)

Galilee: Approximate region. Coordinates \[longitude, latitude\]: \[35.35, 32.85\]. Classification source: editorial.

Illustrative regional extent: \[\[35.1,32.55\],\[35.68,33.15\]\]; not a measured confidence interval.

[Gospel setting; extent is an editorial illustration, not a boundary](https://bible.usccb.org/bible/matthew/4)

[OpenBible.info: competing identifications (CC BY 4.0)](https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a031bda/cana)

## For the class

What does the official do before receiving confirmation that his son is well?

## Interpretation and reuse

Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.

Record source: theographic (279)

Record source: editorial

Events and places adapted from Theographic Bible Metadata (github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata), CC BY-SA 4.0. This adapted data is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.

Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm

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