So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

Ver. 46. A certain nobleman] One that belonged to the king, Βασιλικος, a royalist; for so the common people flatteringly styled Herod the tetrarch. Few noblemen came to Christ; this, not till he was driven to him by his son's sickness. "Not many noble are called," 1 Corinthians 1:26; if any, they are as black swans, and thinly scattered in the firmament of a state, even like stars of the first magnitude.

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