Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
The identity of this person is not known.  Some have supposed that he might have been Chuza, the steward of King Herod (Luke 8:3), or Manaen (Acts 13:1), the king's foster-brother; but these are just guesses.  Not even the title "nobleman" is certainly understood.  Trench said, "The precise meaning of `nobleman' can never be exactly fixed ...  Either he is one of the king's party, a royalist, one who sided with the faction of the Herods ... a king's officer ... or one attached to the court."[9]