Joh 4:52 | NET2full | STEP | So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon the fever left him.”

John 4:52

52 So he asked them the time ^{▼▼tn Grk “the hour.”} when his condition began to improve, ^{▼▼tn BDAG 558 s.v. κομψότερον translates the idiom κομψότερον ἔχειν (kompsoteron echein) as “begin to improve.”} and ^{▼▼tn The second οὖν (oun) in 4:52 has been translated as “and” to improve English style by avoiding redundancy.} they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon ^{▼▼tn Grk “at the seventh hour.”} the fever left him.”