<p>4:50 <i>Jesus said to him: Go your way. Your son lives. The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way</i>- The man of course could have disbelieved; yet the Lord had done the miracle anyway. So the Lord was as it were desperately hopeful that his challenge to the development of the man's faith would work- and it did. And yet his faith was still immature; for although it is stated that the nobleman believed the Lord&rsquo;s words, it was only once his son was healed that he <i>really </i>believed (Jn. 4:50 cp. 54).</p>