'Official' in the Bible

While Jesus was telling them these things, an official came up and fell down before him. "My daughter has just died," he said. "But come and lay your hand on her, and she will live."

Then an official asked Jesus, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

The official replied, "I have kept all of these since I was a young man."

But when the official heard this he became sad, because he was very rich.

So Jesus returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Meanwhile, in Capernaum there was a government official whose son was ill.

The official told him, "Sir, please come down before my little boy dies."