If Dr. Abbott were trying to prove by the Scriptures that black is white, he would hunt for a few passages in which it is said that black is not white. The fourth passage suits the proposition no better. Here again it is implied that his works furnished more conclusive evidence than his word. Only because his word and person without his miracles would have been insufficient to make unbelief a sin. Miracle, or what may conventionally be called so, is the peculiar outcome of peculiarly endowed life.
Life is the mother of all wonders.
On the degree and reach of life, on its intensity and range of power, it will depend whether its natural working will be restricted to, or will rise above, the plane of the common and the familiar. In virtue of a life of peculiar intensity and extraordinary range, what was supernatural to common men was natural to Jesus.