So (Jesus) returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick. When he heard that he had come back from Judea into Galilee, he went after him and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

Jesus said to him: ‘Unless you all see signs or wonders, you will not believe.’ The official said to him: ‘Rabbi, come down before my little child dies.’ Jesus said to him: ‘Go, your son will live.’ The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and set off.

While he was going down, his slaves met him with the news that his child was going to live. So he asked them the time he began to feel better. They told him ‘Yesterday, at one o’clock the fever left him.’ Then the father realised that was the time Jesus had said to him ‘Your son will live,’ and he believed and his whole household. Jesus did this as his second sign, when he came from Judea to Galilee.

O Lord Jesus Christ,
stay beside me to defend me,
within me to guide me,
before me to lead me,
and above me to bless me,
that with you and in you,
I may live, and move and have my being,
for ever and ever.
Amen.

(unknown)