Hello everyone! My name is Elise Brooklyn and this is Scattering Flowers, a podcast where we scatter flowers of faith.
I’m so happy to be with you reading the daily Gospels together.
Let’s get started! Today is Monday, March 31st, and we will be reading John 4, 43 through 54.
Follow along in your Bible if you have one.
Now let’s read John 4, 43 through 54. After the two days he departed to Galilee, for Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast.
So he came into Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wind.
In Capernaum, there was an official whose son was ill.
When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
Jesus therefore said to him, Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.
The official said to him, Sir, come down before my child dies.
Jesus said to him, Go, your son will live.
The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way.
As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was living.
So he asked them the hour when he began to mend.
They said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.
The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, Your son will live.
And he himself believed and all his household.
This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee. In today’s reading, a man had traveled all the way from Capernaum to see Jesus.
This would have been over 25 kilometers or 15 miles walking.
No bicycle, no car walking.
This shows the man’s love for his son and faith in the power of Jesus to heal.
Without being near the boy, Jesus told him that his son was now healed.
The official accepted this and went back home.
He had traveled too far to turn back unless he really believed that Jesus said was true.
The best part of this story is not only that Jesus healed the boy, but that he did it from many miles away.
Would you have had that much faith to believe in Jesus’s healings?
I wrote a poem after reading today’s gospel story.
Jesus heals because he loves.
The Bible stories show it’s true.
Jesus heals because he loves.
I believe it.
How about you?
Let’s pray.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Dear Jesus, please help us to believe in you and the amazing miracles that you do.
Amen.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
Thank you so much for listening.
I’ll be back tomorrow scattering more flowers.
See ya!