"IT'S HARD TO HIDE A GOOD HAPPENING"!" (I know when it happened)............(John 4:43-54)
John 4:52-"Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him." Hebrews 13:8-"Jesus Christ, the same Yesterday, and today, and forever."  
The man is this story whose son was at the POINT of death, had reached a POINT of despiration!  Jesus had already performed his first miracle in Cana by turning the water into wine...and this man doesn't want to wait for the 20th or the 30th miracle; "desparate times call for despirate measures", so, he wants to be first in line for miracle number 2! Matthew 14:35 Gennesaret And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought unto him all that were diseased; Our Lord seems uninterested in his situation at first.  In fact, he turns down the man's pleas for Jesus to go home to his sick son!  ("I'm not going home with you....but I am going home with you because YOUR SON LIVETH!)-(John 14:6-"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way the truth and the LIFE"!)

*The Lord has gave the man HIS WORD that it HAS ALREADY HAPPENED!-(1976-not seen)
1 John 3:2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it DOTH NOT YET APPEAR what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. Jesus told the man, "People these days have got to see something to believe it"!....but the man TOOK him at his word, and just kept on walking towards home where he KNEW LIFE WAS WAITING!!!  1 Peter 1:8 Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:  *This fellow had the SPOKEN WORD, but you and I HAVE IT IN WRITING (Both BIBLE & BOOK OF LIFE!)
This nobleman had to walk downhill in the darkness for nearly 20 miles back home to his sick boy!  You know the devil must have made him to wonder if what happened the day before was still good today!-(Some of you since you've met Jesus have had to walk some dark-windy valleys!...but I'm here to tell you, it gets a whole lot better down the road!)   When he arrived home, and his servants said "guess what"? there was no guessing to it!  A few days before, he left Capernaum with a sad frown and a difficult 20 mile uphill climb ahead of him to Jesus....but when he came back home, the walk was much easier because HE HAD THE PROMISE OF JESUS THAT EVERYTHING WAS GONNA BE ALRIGHT WHEN HE GOT HOME!!!-(He "knew" this by faith!)  The word "know" appears in 1323 verses of the bible!  
1 John 3:14 We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren.  1 John 4:13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit. 1 John 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him. 

*IT WAS HARD TO HIDE THIS HAPPENING BECAUSE:
(1)-THEY ALL KNEW WHAT HAD HAPPENED!-(From Death to Life)  John 4:52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. *There's an interesting similarity in the words "amend" and "left".
*AMEND---to improve by removing faults, to change for the better, and freeing from error!-(Nobleman said this!)
 *LEFT---to go out of or away from, to depart from permanently-(Servants said this!  It was there way of saying, "It aint coming back!")	
	
(2)-THEY ALL KNEW WHEN IT HAPPENED-(20 miles ago, yesterday, at 1pm, at both places!)
Jesus knew...The Nobleman knew...the Servants knew...and his whole House knew when it happened!!!  When something good happens, the news spreads quickly! -(Someone is gonna have a baby, but don't tell anyone!, etc.)---(Do you remember when it happened for you?)
*By the way, DISTANCE IS NO PROBLEM FOR HIM!---He walked on water to close the gap in a midnight storm, he journeyed to the city of curse to get a man out of a tree, and here...20 miles on the other side of the Arbel Cliffs he spoke healing words that reached 700 ft below sea level into a crowded village where a NO-NAMED NOBODY WAS DYING!)
(3)-THEY ALL KNEW WHO MADE IT HAPPEN-John 4:53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house. 
Jesus would call most of his disciples from the shoreline where this miracle happened, and turn Capernaum into a literal CITY OF MIRACLES!