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So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”
John 4:52 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
  • BSB So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”
  • ESV So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
  • NKJV Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
  • NASB So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
  • NLT He asked them when the boy had begun to get better, and they replied, “Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock his fever suddenly disappeared!”

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