John 4 - What does it mean that they "believed?" 2021

John 4:53
So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives"; and he himself believed, and his whole household.

Yeshua knew the heart of this man. He would not believe Yeshua unless he sees signs and wonders. He saw a sign, one that was very important to him, and He then believed Yeshua. Yeshua performed this sign for this man and his household so they might believe. What does it mean that they "believed?" That Jesus dies on the cross? Obviously not! For them to "believe," according to the Greek defintion, means they entrusted Yeshua. To entrust someone means they you do what they say. This family entrusted the Words of Yeshua and acted upon them.

Deut. 18:18-19 ‘I will raise up a prophet from among their countrymen like you, and I will put My words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him. 19‘And it shall come about that whoever will not listen to My words which he shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him.