Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.

 (i) Here is a courtier who came to a carpenter. The Greek is basilikos ( G937) which could even mean that he was a petty king; but it is used for a royal official and he was a man of high standing at the court of Herod. Jesus on the other hand had no greater status than that of the village carpenter of Nazareth. Further, Jesus was in Cana and this man lived in Capernaum, almost twenty miles away. That is why he took so long to get back home. 