4:52a

So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered: This is an indirect quotation. In some languages it may be more natural to translate this as direct speech. For example:

The man asked, “What time did my son begin to get well?”

4:52b

and they told him: The pronoun they here refers to the slaves.

The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour: The servants knew exactly when the fever was healed. Consider how it is natural to say that someone’s body temperature has suddenly become normal again. For example:

his temperature went down yesterday at one in the afternoon
-or-
yesterday at one in the afternoon his temperature ⌊suddenly⌋ became normal
-or-
Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock his fever suddenly disappeared! (New Living Translation (2004))

at the seventh hour: The Greek text that the Berean Standard Bible translates literally as at the seventh hour in today’s system is 1 p.m. The Jewish day at that time started at sunrise, about 6 a.m. It is also in the middle of the day. Translate this in the way the people in your language group call that time.

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