THE MIRACLES OF JESUS

A N E P I C S T U DY O F T H E L I F E O F J E S U S

THE MIRACLES OF JESUS (1)• Born to a Virgin (Mt/Lk)

• Changed water into wine (John 2:1-11).

• Cured the nobleman's son (John 4:46-47).

• The great haul of fishes (Luke 5:1-11).

• Cast out an unclean spirit (Mark 1:23-28).

• Cured Peter's mother-in-law of a fever (Mark 1:30-31).

• Healed a leper (Mark 1:40-45).

• Healed the centurion's servant (Matthew 8:5-13).

• Raised the widow's son from the dead (Luke 7:11-18).

• Calmed the storm (Matthew 8:23-27).

• Cured two demoniacs (Matthew 8:28-34).

• Cured the paralytic (Matthew 9:1-8).

• Raised the ruler's daughter from the dead (Matthew 9:18-26).

THE MIRACLES OF JESUS (2)• Cured a woman of an issue of

blood (Luke 8:43-48).

• Opened the eyes of two blind men (Matthew 9:27-31).

• Loosened the tongue of a man who could not speak (Matthew 9:32-33).

• Healed an invalid man at the pool called Bethesda (John 5:1-9).

• Restored a withered hand (Matthew 12:10-13).

• Cured a demon-possessed man (Matthew 12:22).

• Fed at least five thousand people (Matthew 14:15-21).

• Healed a woman of Canaan (Matthew 15:22-28).

• Cured a deaf and mute man (Mark 7:31-37).

• Fed at least four thousand people (Matthew 15:32-39).

• Opened the eyes of a blind man (Mark 8:22-26).

• Cured a boy who was plagued by a demon (Matthew 17:14-21).

• Opened the eyes of a man born blind (John 9:1-38)

THE MIRACLES OF JESUS (3)• Cured a woman who had been

afflicted eighteen years (Luke 13:10-17).

• Cured a man of dropsy (Luke 14:1-4).

• Cleansed ten lepers (Luke 17:11-19).

• Raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11:1-46).

• Opened the eyes of two blind men (Matthew 20:30-34).

• Caused the fig tree to wither (Matthew 21:18-22).

• Restored the ear of the high priest's servant (Luke 22:50-51).

• Rose from the dead (Luke 24:5-6).

• Second great haul of fishes (John 21:1-14).

• The Ascension (Acts 1:1-11)

THE MIRACLES OF JESUSWhat is a miracle?

Why are they so few miracles?

Why did Jesus do any at all?

What do we learn about Jesus from the miracles?

Why don't we see (more) miracles today?

THE MIRACLES OF JESUS•What is a miracle?

•Why are they so few miracles?

•Why did Jesus do any at all?

•What do we learn about Jesus from the miracles?

•Why don't we see (more) miracles today?

“We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the

natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural

order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to

have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it

is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our

hearts, that the world we all want is coming.” ―Timothy Keller

JESUS FIRST

MIRACLE

John 2:1-11

JOHN 2:1–5 (ESV) THE WEDDING AT CANA

2 On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of

Jesus was there. 2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.

3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” 5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”

JOHN 2:6–8 (ESV)

6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each

holding twenty or thirty gallons. 7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.

8 And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So

they took it.

9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants

who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and

said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely,

then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”

11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his

disciples believed in him.

What can we learn from this miracle?

JÜRGEN MOLTMANN

“Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly ‘natural’ things in a world that is unnatural,

demonized and wounded.”

ROBERT FARRAR CAPON

“The Messiah was not going to save the world by miraculous, Band-Aid

interventions: a storm calmed here, a crowd fed there, a mother-in-law cured

back down the road. Rather, it was going to be saved by means of a deeper,

darker, left-handed mystery, at the center of which lay his own death.”