A question about the love of god

[John V]

What does it matter?

It matters because, if we don't know the disease and cause, then the boy may have been demon-possessed. Demon possession is of course cured by casting out the demon.

Boy was ill.

With what? Here's the verse in thirty translations. Note that only two use the word "ill." Most instead say that he suffered terribly or something similar.

Jesus removed demon. Boy was better. Surely I'm not taking something out of context here.

It depends. If that's the translation you usually use, then no, you didn't take something out of context, you just had a fringe translation of this verse. OTOH, if you did some translation shopping, then yes, you're taking it out of context.