The Miracles of Jesus

Greeting, brothers and sisters in Christ.

Some people don’t believe Jesus existed. Many believe He did exist, but He was just a prophet, and the stories of His miracles were made up by His followers to attract more followers.

Many Christians who do believe that Jesus performed miracles, also believe that miracles ceased with the passing of the apostles, and that miracles don’t happen in today’s world.

I’m fortunate to have grown up surrounded by Spirit-filled Christians, and became one myself. I have no doubts that Jesus performed miracles, and that they still happen today, because I have experienced and witnessed miracles myself, including multiplying food (I’ll tell about that one in a future post!)

Since the Gospels weren’t written down until a few decades after the crucifixion, the events they recorded were presumably passed on orally until quill was set to parchment. It’s feasible that the writers could have met a few people who witnessed some of those miracles for themselves, though they would have been very old by the time they related their experiences with Jesus to the scribes.

The details of stories can change with the telling and retelling of them, so it’s possible that some of the miracles attributed to Jesus never happened. But I believe it’s probable that He performed many miracles that didn’t make it into the written accounts.

Below is a nice, neat list of the miracles recorded in the Gospels.

  • Jesus Turns Water into Wine at the Wedding in Cana

    • John 2:1-11

  • Jesus Heals an Official’s Son at Capernaum in Galilee

    • John 4:43-54

  • Jesus Drives Out an Evil Spirit From a Man in Capernaum

    • Mark 1:21-27 | Luke 4:31-36

  • Jesus Heals Peter’s Mother-in-Law Sick With Fever

    • Matthew 8:14-15 | Mark 1:29-31 | Luke 4:38-39

  • Jesus Heals all the Sick Brought to Him in Capernaum

    • Matthew 8:16-17 | Mark 1:32-34 | Luke 4:40-41

  • First Miraculous Catch of Fish on the Lake of Gennesaret

    • Luke 5:1-11

  • Jesus Cleanses a Man With Leprosy

    • Matthew 8:1-4 | Mark 1:40-45 | Luke 5:12-14

  • Jesus Heals a Centurion’s Servant in Capernaum

    • Matthew 8:5-13 | Luke 7:1-10

  • Jesus Heals a Paralytic Who Was Let Down From the Roof

    • Matthew 9:1-8 | Mark 2:1-12 | Luke 5:17-26

  • Jesus Heals a Man’s Withered Hand on the Sabbath

    • Matthew 12:9-14 | Mark 3:1-6 | Luke 6:6-11

  • Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son From the Dead in Nain

    • Luke 7:11-17

  • Jesus Calms a Storm on the Sea

    • Matthew 8:23-27 | Luke 4:35-41 | Mark 8:22-25

  • Jesus Casts Demons into a Herd of Pigs

    • Matthew 8:28-33 | Mark 5:1-20 | Luke 8:26-39

  • Jesus Heals a Woman in the Crowd With an Issue of Blood

    • Matthew 9:20-22 | Mark 5:25-34 | Luke 8:42-48

  • Jesus Raises Jairus’ Daughter Back to Life

    • Matthew 9:18, 23-26 | Mark 5:21-24, 35-43 | Luke 8:40-42, 49-56

  • Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

    • Matthew 9:27-31

  • Jesus Heals a Mute Man

    • Matthew 9:32-34

  • Jesus Heals an Invalid at Bethesda

    • John 5:1-15

  • Jesus Feeds 5,000 Men, Plus Women and Children

    • Matthew 14:13-21 | Mark 6:30-44 | Luke 9:10-17 | John 6:1-15

  • Jesus Walks on Water

    • Matthew 14:22-33 | Mark 6:45-52 | John 6:16-21

  • Many Sick in Gennesaret are Healed as They Touch Jesus’ Garment

    • Matthew 14:34-36 | Mark 6:53-56

  • Jesus Casts a Demon out of a Gentile Woman’s Daughter

    • Matthew 15:21-28 | Mark 7:24-30

  • Jesus Heals a Deaf and Dumb Man

    • Mark 7:31-37

  • Jesus Feeds 4,000 Men, Plus Women and Children

    • Matthew 15:32-39 | Mark 8:1-13

  • Jesus Heals a Blind Man at Bethsaida

    • Mark 8:22-26

  • Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind with Mud and His Saliva

    • John 9:1-12

  • Jesus Heals a Boy With an Unclean Spirit

    • Matthew 17:14-20 | Mark 9:14-29 | Luke 9:37-43

  • Jesus Tells Peter He’ll Find the Temple Tax in a Fish’s Mouth

    • Matthew 17:24-27

  • Jesus Heals a Blind and Mute Demoniac

    • Matthew 12:22-23 | Luke 11:14-23

  • Jesus Heals a Woman Who Had Been Crippled for 18 Years

    • Luke 13:10-17

  • Jesus Heals a Man With Dropsy on the Sabbath

    • Luke 14:1-6

  • Jesus Cleanses Ten Lepers on the Way to Jerusalem

    • Luke 17:11-19

  • Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead in Bethany

    • John 11:1-45

  • Jesus Restores Sight to Bartimaeus in Jericho

    • Matthew 20:29-34 | Mark 10:46-52 | Luke 18:35-43

  • Jesus Withers the Fig Tree on the Road From Bethany

    • Matthew 21:18:22 | Mark 11:12-14

  • Jesus Heals a Servant’s Severed Ear While He Is Being Arrested

    • Luke 22:50-51

  • The Second Miraculous Catch of Fish at the Sea of Tiberias

    • John 21:4-11

 

 
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