The man believed what Jesus said to him

Book of Isaiah 65:17-21. 
Thus says the LORD: Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; The things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind.
Instead, there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; For I create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight; 
I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying; 
No longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not round out his full lifetime; He dies a mere youth who reaches but a hundred years, and he who fails of a hundred shall be thought accursed. 
They shall live in the houses they build, and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant. 



Psalms 30(29):2.4.5-6.11-12a.13b. 
I will extol you, O LORD, for you drew me clear 
and did not let my enemies rejoice over me. 
O LORD, you brought me up from the nether world; 
you preserved me from among those going down into the pit. 

Sing praise to the LORD, you his faithful ones, 
and give thanks to his holy name. 
For his anger lasts but a moment; 
a lifetime, his good will. 
At nightfall, weeping enters in, 
but with the dawn, rejoicing. 

“Hear, O LORD, and have pity on me; 
O LORD, be my helper.”
You changed my mourning into dancing; 
O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks. 





Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint John 4:43-54. 
At that time Jesus left [Samaria] for Galilee. 
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place.
When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast. 
Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death. 
Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe." 
The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." 
Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son will live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and left. 
While he was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live. 
He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, "The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon." 
The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he and his whole household came to believe. 
(Now) this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.

"The man believed what Jesus said to him"

“The word of God is living and effective, more piercing than any two-edged sword” (Heb 4,12). What greatness of power, what wealth of wisdom in the Word of God is shown by these words of the Apostle to those that seek Christ, who is himself the word, the power, and the wisdom of God. In the beginning, this word was with God, coeternal with him; in his time he was revealed to the prophets, proclaimed by them, and received humbly in the faith of his believing people.
    
We have, therefore, the word in the Father, the word in the mouth, and the word in the heart. The word in the mouth is the expression of the word that is in the Father and also the expression of the word that is in the heart of man. The word in the heart of man is either the understanding of the word or faith in the word or the love of the word when the word is either understood or believed or loved. When these three are united in one heart so that the word of God is at one and the same time understood, believed and loved, then Christ, who is the word of the Father... dwells in the heart by faith. And with wonderful condescension he who is God in the heart of the Father descends even to the heart of men...

This Word of God... is living, and the Father granted to him that he should have life in himself as the Father has life in himself (Jn 5,26). On this account he is not only living, but life; as he says of himself: “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (Jn 14,6).Because he is life, he lives in such a way that he is able to give life, for “as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will” (Jn 5,21).