Healing the royal official's son is one of the miracles of Jesus that appears in the Gospel of John (John 4:46–54). This episode takes place at Cana, though the royal official's son is some distance away, at Capernaum.
In the Gospel of John (NIV):
A similar episode appears in Matthew 8:5–13 and Luke 7:1–10, where the servant of a Centurion is healed. While Fred Craddock treats these as the same miracle, R. T. France considers them separate miracles.[1][2]
The official, based in Capernaum, may have been in service to either the tetrarch Herod Antipas or the emperor. It is not clear whether he is a Jew or Gentile.[3]
The healing of the official's son follows Jesus' conversation with the Samaritan woman regarding "a spring of water welling up to eternal life” and serves as a prelude to Jesus' statement when questioned after healing the paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda on the Sabbath, "For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes."[4]