John 4:52-53
4:52 So he asked them the time 1 when his condition began to improve, 2 and 3 they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon 4 the fever left him.”
4:53 Then the father realized that it was the very time 5 Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed along with his entire household.
1 tn Grk “the hour.”
2 tn BDAG 558 s.v. κομψότερον translates the idiom κομψότερον ἔχειν (komyoteron ecein) as “begin to improve.”
3 tn The second οὖν (oun) in 4:52 has been translated as “and” to improve English style by avoiding redundancy.
4 tn Grk “at the seventh hour.”
5 tn Grk “at that hour.”