Welcome to the Gospel and Life podcast.

John's Gospel recounts several of Jesus' miracles, from turning water into wine to healing a blind man.

John says these miracles are signs pointing us to something greater.

But what is it that we should see?

In today's sermon, Tim Keller looks at one of these signs and what

it reveals about who Jesus is and what he came to accomplish during his life on earth.

Tonight's scripture is from the book of John chapter 4 verses 46 through 54.

Once more he visited Cana in Galilee where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal

official whose son lay sick at Copernum. When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in

Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

Unless you people see signs and wonders, Jesus told him, you will never believe. The royal official

said, Sir, come down before my child dies.

Go, Jesus replied, your son will live. The man took Jesus at his word and departed.

While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living.

When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him yesterday at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.

Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him,

your son will live. So he and his whole household believed.

This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee. This is the

word of the Lord. Now, these, each week we're taking a look at another one of these accounts from the book of

John on what John calls the miraculous signs of Jesus. John calls the miracles of Jesus signs.

And it's because John pulls these miracle accounts out and says, not only do they show Jesus' power,

but they also teach us things. A sign is a symbol. It's a pointer to something. It's very easy to

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