Miracles of Jesus

According to the canonical Gospels of the Bible, Jesus Christ worked many miracles in the course of his ministry. These miracles may be categorized into four groups as cures, exorcisms, resurrection of the dead and control over nature.John Clowes, The Miracles of Jesus Christ published by J. Gleave, Manchester, UK, 1817, available on Google booksH. Van der Loos, 1965 The Miracles of Jesus, E.J. Brill Press, Netherlands, available on Google books 
Some Christian authors argue that the miracles of Jesus were not merely acts of power, but that their chief element was love, and that each miracle includes specific teachings.Robert Maguire 1863 The miracles of Christ published by Weeks and Co. London page 133 Jesus tried to keep the focus on his message, saying that is why he came.
To many Christians and Muslims,"Islamic beliefs include many miracles of healing and of resurrection of the dead." Heribert Busse, 1998 Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, ISBN 1558761446 page 114 the miracles represent actual historical events, while liberal Christians may consider these stories to be figurative.See discussion under Liberal Christianity and miracles. Prior to the Age of Enlightenment they were considered to be accurate representations of the person and work of Jesus Christ. Major shifts in scientific and philosophical thinking during the Enlightenment resulted in similar shifts in theological thinking which began to question the consensus about the Gospels.Greg Herrick. "The Historical Veracity of the Resurrection Narratives." Web: bible.org 8 Nov 2009: Greg Herrick 
Some scholars contend that empirical methods are unable to determine if a genuine miracle is historical, considering the issue theological or philosophical, while others present arguments for the historicity of miracles.Graham H. Twelftree, Jesus the miracle worker: a historical & theological study ISBN 0830815961 page 19Gary R. Habermas, 1996 The historical Jesus: ancient evidence for the life of Christ ISBN 0899007325 page 60Catholic encyclopedia Islamic beliefs include many miracles of healing and of resurrection of the dead.Heribert Busse, 1998 Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, ISBN 1558761446 page 114
== Types and motives==
In The Miracles of Jesus, H. Van der Loos discusses two main categories of miracles by Jesus: those that affected people, e.g., the Blind Man of Bethsaida and are called "healings", and those that "controlled nature", e.g., Walking on Water. The three types of healings are cures where an ailment is cured, exorcisms where demons are cast away and the resurrection of the dead. Among these miracles, the Transfiguration of Jesus is unique in that the miracle happens to Jesus himself.Karl Barth Church dogmatics ISBN 0567050890 page 478
Christian authors have discussed the miracles of Jesus at length and assigned specific goals motives to each miracle, e.g., authors Pentecost and Danilson suggest that the Walking on Water miracle centered on the relationship of Jesus with his apostles, rather than their peril or the miracle itself. And that the miracle was specifically designed by Jesus to teach the apostles that when encountering obstacles, they need to rely on their faith in Christ, first and foremost.Dwight Pentecost .The words and works of Jesus Christ. Zondervan, 1980. ISBN 0310309409, p.234
Authors Donahue and Harrington argue that the Daughter of Jairus miracle teaches that faith as embodied in the bleeding woman can exist in seemingly hopeless situations, and that through belief, healing can be achieved, in that when the woman is healed, Jesus tells here "Your faith has healed you".John R. Donahue, Daniel J. Harrington. The Gospel of Mark. Zondervan 1981. ISBN 0814659659 p.182
The miracles are outlined in this section and a visual representation, with a link to the each miracle's own page, appears in the gallery of miracles below. The structure and separation of miracles mostly follows Robert Maguire's "The miracles of Christ", John Clowes' "The miracles of Jesus Christ", and H. Van der Loos' "The Miracles of Jesus" listed in the references section.
=== Cures ===
The largest group of miracles mentioned in the New Testament involve cures. The Gospels give varying amounts of detail for each episode, sometimes Jesus cures simply by saying a few words, at other times employs material such as spit and mud. Generally they are recorded in the Synoptic Gospels but not in the Gospel of John.
====The blind====
The canonical Gospels report four separate cases of Jesus healing the blind. The Gospel of Mark is the only place that tells of Jesus healing the Blind man in Bethsaida.
Each of the three synoptic gospels tell of Jesus healing the blind near Jericho, as he passed through that town, shortly before his passion. The Mark tells only of a man named Bartimaeus being present and healed, as Jesus left Jericho, making him one of the few named people to be cured by Jesus. Matthew is a similar account of two blind men being healed outside of Jericho, but gives no names. Luke also tells of two unnamed blind men, but seems to place the event instead as when Jesus approached Jericho. The Synoptics state that Jesus met a beggar (Mark gives the name: bar-Timai or son of Timai) who, though blind, still identified Jesus as the Jewish Messiah; Jesus said that the man's faith has healed him, and he "received his sight," and was allowed to follow Jesus. 
The Gospel of Matthew also reports of Jesus healing two blind men in Galilee, at some earlier time, who also called him "Son of David." Jesus touched their eyes and restored their sight.
Healing the man blind from birth is discussed in the Gospel of John, and is placed during the Festival of Tabernacles, about six months before his passion. Jesus stated that the man's blindness was not because either the man or his parents sinned. Jesus mixed spittle with dirt to make a mud mixture, which he placed in the man's eyes. Jesus then asked the man to wash his eyes in the Pool of Siloam. This done, the man's sight returned.
====Lepers====
The Jesus cleansing a leper miracle appears in , and . Early in Jesus' ministry, he healed a leper, whom he then instructed to offer the requisite ritual sacrifices as proscribed by the Deuteronomic Code and Priestly Code. Jesus instructed the ex-leper not to tell anyone who had healed him; but the man disobeyed, increasing Jesus' fame, and thereafter Jesus withdrew to deserted places, but was followed there. 
In the Cleansing ten lepers miracle, states that while on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus sent ten lepers, who had sought his assistance, to the priests, and that they were healed as they went, but that the only one that came back to thank Jesus was a Samaritan.
====Paralytics====
Healing the paralytic at Capernaum appears in , and . The Synoptics state that a paralytic was brought to Jesus on a mat; Jesus told him to get up and walk, and the man did so. Jesus also told the man that his sins were forgiven, which irritated the Pharisees. Jesus is described as responding to the anger by asking whether it is easier to say that someone's sins are forgiven, or to tell the man to get up and walk. Mark and Luke state that Jesus was in a house at the time, and that the man had to be lowered through the roof by his friends due to the crowds blocking the door. 
A similar cure is described in the Gospel of John as the Healing the paralytic at Bethesda and occurs at the Pool of Bethesda. In this cure Jesus also tells the man to take his mat and walk. 
====Women====
The Cure of a bleeding woman miracle appears in , and , along with the miracle of the Daughter of Jairus., and . The Gospels state that while heading to Jairus' house Jesus was approached by a woman who had been suffering from bleeding for 12 years, and that she touched Jesus' cloak (fringes of his garment) and was instantly healed. Jesus turned about and, when the woman came forward, said "Daughter, your faith has healed you, go in peace". 
Healing the mother of Peter's wife. The Synoptics, and describe Jesus as healing the mother-in-law of Simon Peter when he visited Simon's house in Capernaum, around the time of Jesus recruiting Simon as an Apostle (Mark has it just after the calling of Simon, while Luke has it just before). The Synoptics imply that this led other people to seek out Jesus.
Jesus healing an infirm woman appears in . While teaching in a synagogues on a Sabbath, Jesus cured a woman who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years and could not stand straight at all.
====Men====
Healing a man with dropsy is described in . In this miracle, Jesus cured a man with dropsy at the house of a prominent Pharisee on the Sabbath. Jesus justified the cure by asking: "If one of you has a child or an ox that falls into a well on the Sabbath day, will you not immediately pull it out?"
In the Healing of the man with a withered hand miracle,, , the Synoptics state that Jesus entered a synagogue on Sabbath, and found a man with a withered hand there, whom Jesus healed, having first challenged the people present to decide what was lawful for Sabbath—to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill. The Gospel of Mark adds that this angered the Pharisees so much that they started to contemplate killing Jesus.
The Healing the deaf mute of Decapolis miracle only appears in the Gospel of Mark. The Gospel states that Jesus went to the Decapolis and met a man there who was deaf and mute, and cured him. Specifically, Jesus first touched the man's ears, and touched his tongue after spitting, and then said Ephphatha!, an Aramaic word meaning Be opened.
====Other====
The Healing the Centurion's servant miracle is reported in and . These two Gospels narrate how Jesus healed the servant of a Roman Centurion in Capernaum. has a similar account at Capernaum, but states that it was the son of a royal official who was cured at a distance.
Jesus healing in the land of Gennesaret appears in and . As Jesus passes through Gennesaret all those who touch his cloak are healed.
 also reports that after the miracle of Jesus exorcising a mute, Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness.
=== Exorcisms ===
According to the three Synoptic Gospels, Jesus performed many exorcisms of demoniacs. These incidents are not mentioned by the Gospel of John.
Jesus pointed to his ability to cast out demons as a sign of his Messiahship, and he empowered his disciples to do the same in His name.,; ; ; , 
The seven major exorcism accounts in the Synoptic Gospels which have details, and imply specific teachings, are:
* Exorcism at the Synagogue in Capernaum, where Jesus exorcised an evil spirit who cried out, "What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!". 
* Exorcising the Gerasenes demonic where people had tried to chain up a demonic but he had escaped, and lived in caves, and roamed the hills, screaming. Jesus inquired the man's name, but is told by the man/demons that his name is Legion, "...for we are many". The demons asked to be expelled into a group of swine, which Jesus did, and thereafter the pigs fell into a lake and drowned. The pig owners tell the townsfolk what had happened, and when the townsfolk see that the man is now sane, they besought Jesus to leave "for they were taken with great fear". The man, on the other hand, informs the whole of the decapolis what had happened., , 
* Exorcising the Canaanite woman's daughter appears in The woman asks Jesus to heal her daughter, but Jesus says "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel". The woman replies, "Lord: yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table", whereupon Jesus tells her that her daughter is healed, and when the woman returns home she finds that this is true. 
* Exorcising the blind and mute man appears in , and . Jesus healed a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, so that he could both talk and see. People were astonished and said, "Could this be the Son of David?" But the Pharisees said that it is only by Beelzebul, that he drives out demons, but Jesus rebuked them.
* In Exorcising a boy possessed by a demon in , , , a boy possessed by a demon is brought forward to Jesus straight after Jesus' transfiguration. The boy foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, becomes rigid and involuntarily falls into both water and fire. Jesus' followers cannot expel the demon, and Jesus condemns the people as unbelieving, but when the father of the boy questions if Jesus can heal the boy, Jesus says everything is possible for those that believe, so the father says he believes that the boy could be healed, and Jesus does so., , 
* The miracle of Jesus exorcising at sunset appears in the Synoptic Gospels just after Healing the mother of Peter's wife, namely in , and In this miracle Jesus heals people and drives out many demons who know he is Christ.
* The miracle of Jesus exorcising a mute appears in immediately following the account of Jesus healing two blind men miracle. A man who was demon-possessed and could not talk was brought to Jesus. And when the demon was driven out, the man who had been mute spoke. 
There are also brief mentions of other exorcisms, e.g.:
* Jesus had driven seven demons out of Mary Magdalene. 
* Jesus continued to cast out demons even though Herod Antipas wanted to kill him.
===Resurrection of the dead===
All four Canonical Gospels report Jesus' own resurrection from the dead but the Gospels also relate three other occasions on which Jesus calls a dead person back to life:
* Daughter of Jairus. Jairus, a major patron of a synagogue, asks Jesus to heal his daughter, but while Jesus is on his way, men tell Jairus that his daughter has died. Jesus says she was only sleeping and wakes her up with the word Talitha koum!.
* The Young Man from Nain. A young man, the son of a widow, is brought out for burial in Nain. Jesus sees her, and his pity causes him to tell her not to cry. Jesus approaches the coffin and tells the man inside to get up, and he does so.
* The Raising of Lazarus. A close friend of Jesus who had been dead for four days is brought back to life when Jesus commands him to get up.
=== Control over nature ===
The Gospels include eight pre-resurrection accounts concerning Jesus' power over nature:
* Turning Water into Wine—at a wedding, when the host runs out of wine, the host's servants fill vessels with water at Jesus' command, then a sample is drawn out and taken to the master of the banquet who pronounces the content of the vessels as the best wine of the banquet.
* The miracle of draught of fishes takes place early in Jesus's ministry and results in Saints Peter, James, son of Zebedee and John joining Jesus as his Apostles. 
* The Feeding of the 5000 and of the 4000 men—Jesus, praying to God and using only a few loaves of bread and several fish, feeds thousands of men, along with an unspecified number of women and children; there are even a number of baskets of leftovers afterward.
* Walking on water—Jesus walked on a lake to meet a boat.
* Transfiguration of Jesus—Jesus climbed a mountain and was changed so that his face glowed.Henry Rutter, Evangelical harmony Keating and Brown, London 1803. page 450
* Calming the storm - during a storm, the disciples woke Jesus, and he rebuked the storm causing it to become calm. Jesus then rebukes the disciples for lack of faith.
* Finding a Coin in the fish's mouth is reported in .
* The Cursing of the Fig Tree—Jesus cursed a fig tree, and it withered.
Post-resurrection miracles attributed to Jesus are also recorded in the Gospels:
* A similar miracle to the miracle of draught of fishes, usually called the catch of 153 fish, is reported in the Gospel of John but takes place after the Resurrection of Jesus.
== Interpretations ==
===General interpretation===
Christians in general believe that Jesus' miracles were actual historical events and that his miraculous works were an important part of his life, attesting to his divinity and the Hypostatic union, i.e., the dual natures of Jesus as God and Man. Christians believe that while Jesus' experiences of hunger, weariness, and death were evidences of his humanity, the miracles were evidences of his deity.Lockyer, Herbert, 1988 All the Miracles of the Bible ISBN 0310281016 page 25William Thomas Brande, George William Cox, A dictionary of science, literature, & art London, 1867, also Published by Old Classics on Kindle, 2009, page 655Bernard L. Ramm 1993 An Evangelical Christology ISBN 1573830089 page 45
Since according to the Gospel of John it was impossible to narrate all of the miracles performed by Jesus, the Catholic Encyclopedia states that the miracles presented in the Gospels were selected for a twofold reason: first for the manifestation of God's glory, and then for their evidential value. Jesus referred to his "works" as evidences of his mission and his divinity, and in John 5:36 he declared that his miracles have greater evidential value than the testimony of John the Baptist.Biblegateway John 20:30 Biblegateway John 5:36 Catholic Encyclopedia on Miracles quotes Jesus as follows:
"Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does. But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."
Christian authors generally view the miracles of Jesus not merely as acts of power, but as works of love and mercy: they were performed not with a view to awe men by the feeling of omnipotence, but to show compassion for sinful and suffering humanity. And each miracle involves specific teachings.Robert Maguire 1863 The miracles of Christ published by Weeks and Co. London page 133Catholic Encyclopedia on Miracles Warren W. Wiersbe 1995 Classic Sermons on the Miracles of Jesus ISBN 082543999X page 132
In Christian teachings, the miracles were as much a vehicle for Jesus' message as were his words. Many of the miracles emphasize the importance of faith, for instance in Cleansing ten lepers, Jesus did not say: "My power has saved you" but said:Berard L. Marthaler 2007 The creed: the apostolic faith in contemporary theology ISBN 0896225372 page 220Lockyer, Herbert, 1988 All the Miracles of the Bible ISBN 0310281016 page 235
"Rise and go; your faith has saved you."
Similarly, in the Walking on Water miracle, Apostle Peter learns an important lesson about faith in that as his faith wavers, he begins to sink. Pheme Perkins 1988 Reading the New Testament ISBN 0809129396 page 54
===Liberal Christianity===
Liberal Christians place less emphasis on miraculous events associated with the life of Jesus than on his teachings. The effort to remove "superstitious" elements from Christian faith dates to intellectual reformist Christians such as Erasmus and the Deists in the 15th–17th centuries.Linda Woodhead, "Christianity," in Religions in the Modern World (Routledge, 2002), pp. 186 online and 193. In the 19th century, self-identified liberal Christians sought to elevate Jesus' humane teachings as a standard for a world civilization freed from cultic traditions and traces of "pagan" belief in the supernatural.Burton L. Mack, The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins (HarperCollins, 1993), p. 29 online. The debate over whether a belief in miracles was mere superstition or essential to accepting the divinity of Christ constituted a crisis within the 19th-century church, for which theological compromises were sought.The Making of American Liberal Theology: Imagining Progressive Religion 1805–1900, edited by Gary J. Dorrien (Westminster John Knox Press, 2001), passim, search miracles. 
Attempts to account for miracles through scientific or rational explanation were mocked even at the turn of the 19th–20th century.F.J. Ryan, Protestant Miracles: High Orthodox and Evangelical Authority for the Belief in Divine Interposition in Human Affairs (Stockton, California, 1899), p. 78 online. Full text downloadable. A belief in the authenticity of miracles was one of five tests established in 1910 by the Presbyterian Church to distinguish true believers from false professors of faith such as "educated, 'liberal' Christians."Dan P. McAdams, The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By (Oxford University Press, 2006), p. 164 online.
Contemporary liberal Christians may prefer to read Jesus' miracles as metaphorical narratives for understanding the power of God.Ann-Marie Brandom, "The Role of Language in Religious Education," in Learning to Teach Religious Education in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience (Routledge, 2000), p. 76 online. Not all theologians with liberal inclinations reject the possibility of miracles, but may reject the polemicism that denial or affirmation entails.The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900-1950, edited by Gary J. Dorrien (Westminster John Knox Press, 2003), passim, search miracles, especially p. 413; on Ames, p. 233 online; on Niebuhr, p. 436 online.
=== Critical analysis ===
Aside from literal interpretations, and assumptions of them being fiction, numerous other explanations of the events have been put forward throughout history. Beginning with the Gnostics, it has been suggested that the reports of alleged miracles were actually intended just as allegories, not as factual events. It has also been argued that bar-Timai is a direct reference to Plato's Timaeus, a philosophical work, and that bar-Timai symbolizes the Hellenic audience of Mark's gospel, and that curing his blindness is a metaphor for the Gospel giving a revelation to the audience.
A study by the Jesus Seminar of what aspects of the Gospel accounts are likely to be factual acknowledged that Jesus was considered a healer in his time, but described Jesus' healings in modern terms, relating them to "psychosomatic maladies". The scholars of the Jesus Seminar had difficulty believing the stories in the Gospels described actual events, finding only six of the nineteen healings to be "probably reliable".Funk 1998, p. 531 Most scholars of the Jesus Seminar believe Jesus practiced exorcisms, as Josephus, Philostratus, and others wrote about other contemporary exorcists, but do not believe the gospel accounts were accurate reports of specific events, though most scholars doubted whether demons exist.Funk 1998, p. 530f They did not find any of the nature miracles to be historical events.Funk 1998, p. 531
== List of miracles in the four Gospels ==
Over the centuries Christian authors have reviewed, discussed and analyzed the miracles attributed to Jesus in the Gospels. In most cases, authors associate each miracle with specific teachings that reflect the message of Jesus.Craig A. Evans, 2001 Jesus and his contemporaries ISBN 0391041185 pages 6-7 Miracles performed by Jesus are mentioned in two sections of the Quran (suras 3:49 and 5:110) in broad strokes with little detail or comment.George W. Braswell, 2000 What you need to know about Islam & Muslims ISBN 0805418296 page 112
The exact number of miracles depends on how miracles are counted, e.g., in the Daughter of Jairus miracle a woman is cured and a child is resurrected, but the two events are narrated within the same paragraphs of the Gospels, and are usually dealt with together, and the fact that the child was 12 years old and the woman had been ill for 12 years has been the subject of various interpretations.
It is not always clear when two reported miracles refer to the same event, for instance in the Healing the Centurion's servant, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke narrate how Jesus healed the servant of a Roman Centurion in Capernaum at a distance. The Gospel of John has a similar account at Capernaum, but states that it was the son of a royal official who was cured at a distance.
Supernatural events such as the Annunciation reported in the Gospels prior to the start of the ministry of Jesus, and events following his Resurrection are generally not included in the list of miracles by Jesus, and neither is the use of "supernatural knowledge" such as in the case of the Woman at the well.Warren W. Wiersbe 1995 Classic Sermons on the Miracles of Jesus ISBN 082543999XJohn Clowes, 1817, The Miracles of Jesus Christ published by J. Gleave, Manchester, UKH. Van der Loos, 1965 The Miracles of Jesus, E.J. Brill Press, Netherlands 
It should be noted that the Gospel of John specifically states that the miracles it recorded were but a portion of the miracles that Jesus actually performed.
The table below, provides a list of the miracles of Jesus from the start of his ministry, up to his Crucifixion in the canonical Gospels. However, very short references─such as which briefly states that Jesus cured many people of many diseases─have not been classified as specific miracles since no details, and hence no teaching, have been associated with them. The chronological order of the miracles is difficult to determine, so this list should not be viewed as a sequence.
Miracle 	Matthew	Mark	Luke	John
Turned water into wine 	 	 	 	
Exorcism in Capernaum 	 	 	 	
Caught large number of fish, converted fishermen to "fishers of men" 	 	 	 	
Jesus' name exorcises demons and performs many miracles 	 	, 	, 	, , , ,
Cured a leper 	 	 	 	
Miraculous conversion of a Samaritan woman 	 	 	 	
Healing the Centurion's servant 	 	 	 	
Cured a royal official's son 	 	 	 	
Healing the mother of Peter's wife 	 	 	 	
Drove 7 demons out of Mary Magdalene 	 	 	 	
Calming the storm 	 	 	 	
Healed the Gerasene Demoniac 	 	 	 	
Cured a paralytic at Capernaum 	 	 	 	
Cured a paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda 	 	 	 	
Raised the son of a widow at Nain 	 	 	 	
Raised Jairus' daughter by saying Talitha koum! 	 	 	 	
Healed a woman with a hemorrhage who touched the fringes of his garmentJewish Encyclopedia: Jesus: "Jesus wore the Ẓiẓit (Matt. ix. 20)"; Strong's Concordance G2899; Walter Bauer's Greek-English Lexicon of the NT, 3rd ed., 1979: ": 1. edge, border, hem of a garment—But meaning 2 is also possible for these passages, depending on how strictly Jesus followed Mosaic law, and also upon the way in which was understood by the authors and first readers of the gospels. 2. tassel (ציצת), which the Israelite was obligated to wear on the four corners of his outer garment, according to Num 15:38f; Dt 22:12." ... Of the Pharisees ... Mt 23:5.	 	 	 	
Healed two blind men, a mute, and every disease and ailment 	 	 	 	
Healed a man's withered hand 	 	 	 	
Healed huge crowds 	 	 	 	
Healed a blind and dumb demoniac 	 	 	; 	
Fed 5000 	 	 	 	
Walked on water 	 	 	 	
All those who touched the fringes of his garment were cured 	 	 	 	
Exorcised a Canaanite (Syro-Phoenician) woman 	 	 	 	
Healed a deaf-mute by saying Ephphatha! 	 	 	 	
Healed large numbers of crippled, blind and mute 	 	 	 	
Fed 4000 	 	 	 	
Restored a man's sight at Bethsaida 	 	 	 	
Transfiguration 	 	 	 	
Exorcised a possessed boy 	 	 	 	
Coin in the fish's mouth 	 	 	 	
Healed a woman on Sabbath 	 	 	 	
Continued to cast out demons even though Herod Antipas wanted to kill him 	 	 	 	
Raised Lazarus 	 	 	 	
Healed a man with dropsy 	 	 	 	
Healed ten lepers 	 	 	 	
Healed large crowds in Judea 	 	 	 	
Healed two blind men 	 	 	 	
Healed the blind beggar Bartimaeus 	 	 	 	
Healing the blind at birth 	 	 	 	
Healed blind and lame at Herod's Temple 	 	 	 	
Cursing the fig tree 	 	, 	 	
Healed High Priest's servant's ear 	 	 	 	
== List of miracles found outside the New Testament ==
Accounts of Jesus performing miracles are also found outside the New Testament. Later, 2nd century texts, called Infancy Gospels, narrate Jesus performing miracles during his childhood.
Miracle 	Ssources
Rich young man raised from the dead 	Secret Gospel of Mark 1
Water controlled and purified 	Infancy Thomas 2.2
Made birds of clay and brought them to life 	Infancy Thomas 2.3
Resurrected dead playmate Zeno 	Infancy Thomas 9
Healed a woodcutter's foot 	Infancy Thomas 10
Held water in his cloak 	Infancy Thomas 11
Harvested 100 bushels of wheat from a single seed	Infancy Thomas 12
Stretched a board that was short for carpentry 	Infancy Thomas 13
Resurrected a teacher he earlier struck down 	Infancy Thomas 14-15
Healed James' viper bite 	Infancy Thomas 16
Resurrected a dead child 	Infancy Thomas 17
Resurrected a dead man 	Infancy Thomas 18
Miraculous Virgin Birth verified by midwife 	Infancy James 19-20
== See also ==
* Parables of Jesus
* Gospel harmony
* Acts of the Apostles
* Moses, Joshua, Elijah and Elisha
* Timeline of the Bible
== References ==
* Clowes, John, 1817, The Miracles of Jesus Christ published by J. Gleave, Manchester, UK
* Funk, Robert W. and the Jesus Seminar, 1998 The Acts of Jesus: The Search for the Authentic Deeds of Jesus. Polebridge Press, San Francisco. ISBN 0-06-062978-9
* List of Jesus' Miracles and Biblical References
* Lockyer, Herbert, 1988 All the Miracles of the Bible ISBN 0310281016
* Kilgallen, John J., 1989 A Brief Commentary on the Gospel of Mark, Paulist Press, ISBN 0-8091-3059-9
* Maguire, Robert, 1863 The Miracles of Christ published by Weeks and Co. London
* Miller, Robert J. Editor, 1994 The Complete Gospels, Polebridge Press, ISBN 0-06-065587-9
* Trench, Richard Chenevix, Notes on the miracles of our Lord, London : John W. Parker, 1846
* Van der Loos, H., 1965 The Miracles of Jesus, E.J. Brill Press, Netherlands
* Warren W. Wiersbe 1995 Classic Sermons on the Miracles of Jesus ISBN 082543999X
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== Notes==
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