The Miracles of Jesus Christ

At a marriage feast in Cana, the supply of wine fails. Mary brings the need to Jesus, and He directs the servants to fill six stone waterpots used for purification. They fill them to the brim. When the contents are drawn out for the governor of the feast, the water has become wine.

John calls this the beginning of Jesus' signs and says it manifested His glory, leading His disciples to believe on Him. The quantity matters: six large stone vessels represent a substantial volume, turning a private household crisis into the first expressly numbered sign in John's Gospel.

A royal official travels to Cana because his son lies sick at Capernaum. Jesus does not travel to the bedside. He tells the father, “Go thy way; thy son liveth,” and the man believes the word and departs.

Servants meet the father on his return and report that the boy recovered at the very hour Jesus spoke. John identifies this as the second sign Jesus performed after returning from Judaea into Galilee, emphasizing authority that operates across distance.

After fishermen have worked through the night without success, Jesus teaches from Simon's boat and then commands him to launch into the deep and let down the nets. Simon obeys despite the failed night.

The catch is so great that the net breaks and a second boat is summoned; both boats become so loaded that they begin to sink. Peter's response is awe rather than commercial excitement, and the event becomes the setting for the call to become fishers of men.

While Jesus teaches in the synagogue at Capernaum, a man with an unclean spirit cries out and recognizes Jesus. Jesus rebukes the spirit, commands it to hold its peace and come out, and the spirit leaves the man.

The congregation is astonished because the command is immediate and authoritative. Mark and Luke present the episode as an early public demonstration that Jesus' authority extends beyond teaching to direct command over unclean spirits.

Peter's mother-in-law lies sick with a great fever. The Gospel accounts preserve complementary details: Jesus touches her hand, stands over her, and rebukes the fever.

The fever leaves immediately, and she rises and ministers to those in the house. The immediate return of strength is part of the sign, distinguishing the account from a slow convalescence.

At evening, crowds bring the sick and those possessed with devils to Jesus. Matthew says He casts out the spirits with His word and heals all that are sick; Luke describes Jesus laying hands on the sick and devils coming out of many.

This is crucial for understanding the scale of the ministry. The Gospels preserve individually named miracles, but passages like this describe many additional healings and deliverances in a single setting, exactly the kind of uncounted activity that makes John's closing statement so important.

A man described by Luke as full of leprosy approaches Jesus, falls before Him and declares that Jesus can make him clean if He wills. Jesus reaches out, touches him and says, “I will; be thou clean.”

The leprosy departs immediately. Jesus instructs the healed man to show himself to the priest and offer what Moses commanded, connecting the miracle directly to the Torah's procedures for confirming cleansing.

A crowd makes the house inaccessible, so four men open the roof and lower a paralytic before Jesus. Jesus first tells the man that his sins are forgiven, provoking inward objections from scribes.

Jesus then commands the paralytic to arise, take up his bed and go home. The man immediately stands and carries the bed out before the crowd, making the visible healing a public sign connected to Jesus' declared authority to forgive sins.

At the pool called Bethesda, Jesus encounters a man who has suffered an infirmity for thirty-eight years. Jesus asks whether he will be made whole and then commands him to rise, take up his bed and walk.

The man is healed immediately. John's precise reference to the pool's five porches is especially significant for the museum because archaeological remains north of the Temple area have illuminated the physical setting of the account.

In a synagogue on the sabbath, Jesus calls forward a man whose hand is withered. Opponents watch to see whether He will heal, turning the man's condition into a public discussion.

Jesus commands the man to stretch forth his hand. He does so, and it is restored whole like the other. The miracle becomes both a healing and a confrontation over mercy, sabbath practice and Jesus' authority.

A Roman centurion seeks help for a gravely ill servant. The officer describes himself as unworthy for Jesus to enter his house and reasons from military authority that a spoken command is sufficient.

Jesus marvels at his faith. The servant is healed without Jesus entering the house, another Gospel example of healing at a distance and one involving a Gentile connected to Roman military authority.

Jesus meets a funeral procession leaving Nain. The dead man is the only son of a widow, making the death both a personal tragedy and a severe social loss for his mother.

Jesus touches the bier and commands, “Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.” The dead man sits up and begins to speak, and Jesus delivers him to his mother. Fear spreads through the crowd, which declares that a great prophet has arisen.

A man possessed with a devil is brought to Jesus, and his affliction is described through blindness and inability to speak. Jesus heals him.

The man both speaks and sees after the deliverance. The crowd asks whether Jesus might be the son of David, while the ensuing discussion with the Pharisees leads to an extended teaching about the kingdom of God and the casting out of devils.

A violent storm overtakes the disciples' boat while Jesus sleeps. Waves fill the vessel and experienced fishermen fear that they are perishing.

Jesus rebukes the wind and the sea, and there is a great calm. The disciples' question, “What manner of man is this,” captures the central force of the event: wind and sea obey His command.

On the eastern side of the lake, Jesus encounters a man described by Mark and Luke as violently possessed, living among tombs and impossible to restrain even with chains. Matthew records two possessed men in the region.

The spirits identify themselves as “Legion” in Mark and Luke and enter a herd of swine after Jesus commands them out. The delivered man is later found clothed and in his right mind, a dramatic before-and-after portrait of Christ's authority over a multitude of evil spirits.

A woman who has suffered bleeding for twelve years approaches Jesus within a pressing crowd. Mark notes that she had endured much treatment and spent her resources without improvement.

Believing that touching His garment will make her whole, she reaches through the crowd and is healed immediately. Jesus stops, identifies that power has gone out, and brings the hidden healing into a personal encounter with the woman.

Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, begs Jesus to come because his daughter is dying. During the journey, messengers report that she has died, but Jesus tells Jairus not to fear.

Inside the house Jesus takes the girl by the hand and commands her to arise. She rises and walks. Mark preserves her age as twelve years and the Aramaic words “Talitha cumi,” giving the account unusually intimate detail.

Two blind men follow Jesus crying, “Thou son of David, have mercy on us.” Inside the house Jesus asks whether they believe He is able to do this.

He touches their eyes and declares that it will be according to their faith. Their eyes are opened, and despite His charge concerning publicity, the report spreads through the region.

A man unable to speak because of demonic oppression is brought to Jesus. The narrative directly associates his inability to speak with the devil.

When the devil is cast out, the man speaks. The crowds marvel that nothing like it has been seen in Israel, while the Pharisees answer with an accusation about the source of Jesus' power.

A vast crowd remains with Jesus in a deserted place. Five loaves and two fishes are the visible supply. Jesus gives thanks, breaks the food and distributes it through the disciples.

About five thousand men eat, besides women and children according to Matthew, and twelve baskets of fragments remain. It is the only pre-Resurrection miracle narrated in all four Gospels, giving the museum four complementary eyewitness traditions to compare.

After the feeding of the five thousand, the disciples cross the lake while Jesus remains behind. During the night, with the boat struggling against wind and waves, they see Jesus walking upon the sea.

The disciples initially fear they are seeing a spirit, but Jesus identifies Himself and tells them not to fear. Matthew additionally records Peter stepping onto the water. When Jesus enters the boat, the wind ceases.

Peter asks Jesus to command him to come across the water. At the word “Come,” Peter leaves the boat and walks on the sea toward Jesus.

When Peter becomes afraid of the wind, he begins to sink and cries for rescue. Jesus immediately catches him. The episode is nested within the larger miracle of Jesus walking on the sea but deserves separate attention because Peter himself temporarily participates in the extraordinary act.

After crossing the lake, Jesus is recognized in Gennesaret and people run through the surrounding region bringing the sick on beds wherever they hear He is.

The accounts describe people begging merely to touch the border of His garment, and as many as touch Him are made whole. Again, the Gospel writers summarize a multitude of individual miracles rather than counting each healed person.

A Gentile woman from the coastal region pleads for her daughter, who is grievously vexed with a devil. The exchange tests and reveals the woman's persistent faith.

Jesus declares her faith great and grants her request. Mark records that when she returns home she finds the devil gone out and her daughter lying upon the bed, combining deliverance from an evil spirit with authority exercised at a distance.

People bring Jesus a man who is deaf and has difficulty speaking. Jesus takes him aside, touches his ears and tongue, looks to heaven and says, “Ephphatha,” meaning “Be opened.”

Immediately the man's ears are opened and his speech becomes clear. The crowd responds that Jesus has done all things well, making the restoration of hearing and speech a public sign in the Decapolis region.

A second great crowd remains with Jesus for three days and has nothing to eat. Jesus expresses compassion because sending them away fasting could cause them to faint on the road.

Seven loaves and a few small fishes become enough for four thousand men, besides women and children in Matthew, with seven baskets left. The numbers deliberately distinguish this event from the feeding of the five thousand.

At Bethsaida, people bring a blind man and ask Jesus to touch him. Jesus leads him outside the town and begins the healing personally.

After the first action the man sees people indistinctly, “as trees, walking.” Jesus places His hands on the man's eyes again, after which his sight is fully restored. It is an unusual Gospel healing described in stages.

Jesus takes Peter, James and John up a mountain, where His appearance changes before them. His face shines, His clothing becomes brilliant, and Moses and Elijah appear speaking with Him.

A bright cloud overshadows them and a voice identifies Jesus as the beloved Son and commands the disciples to hear Him. The event is not a healing but a supernatural revelation witnessed by the inner circle of disciples.

A father brings his afflicted son after the disciples have been unable to cast out the spirit. Mark describes violent convulsions, foaming, grinding of teeth and repeated attempts by the spirit to destroy the boy.

Jesus rebukes the unclean spirit and commands it to leave and enter no more. The boy collapses so completely that many think he is dead, but Jesus takes him by the hand and lifts him up. The deliverance becomes an important teaching moment about faith and prayer.

When collectors ask about the Temple tribute, Jesus discusses the matter with Peter and then instructs him to cast a hook into the sea.

Peter is told that the first fish caught will contain a coin sufficient for both Jesus and Peter. The event joins supernatural knowledge with precise provision and fits Capernaum's fishing economy.

Jesus encounters a man blind from birth. He makes clay, anoints the man's eyes and sends him to wash in the pool of Siloam.

The man returns seeing, triggering an extended investigation by neighbors, parents and Pharisees. Because the blindness was lifelong, the account repeatedly emphasizes identity and testimony. The Pool of Siloam gives the episode a particularly strong archaeological setting in Jerusalem.

While teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath, Jesus sees a woman who has been bowed together for eighteen years and cannot straighten herself.

Jesus calls her, declares her loosed from the infirmity and lays hands on her. She immediately stands upright and glorifies God. Jesus describes her as a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound, explicitly connecting physical restoration with release from spiritual bondage.

At a meal in the house of a chief Pharisee, Jesus encounters a man suffering from dropsy, an abnormal accumulation of fluid. Lawyers and Pharisees are watching Him closely.

Jesus asks whether it is lawful to heal on the sabbath, heals the man and lets him go. He then challenges the observers with an analogy about rescuing an animal in immediate need.

Lazarus of Bethany becomes sick while Jesus is away. By the time Jesus arrives, Lazarus has been in the grave four days. Martha explicitly notes the expected decay when Jesus commands the stone to be removed.

Jesus prays publicly and cries, “Lazarus, come forth.” The dead man emerges still bound in grave clothes. The miracle becomes a turning point in John's narrative, drawing many to belief while intensifying the leadership's determination to put Jesus to death.

Ten lepers stand at a distance and cry for mercy. Jesus tells them to go show themselves to the priests, and they are cleansed while they are on the way.

Only one returns to give thanks, and Luke identifies him as a Samaritan. The event combines a group healing with priestly verification and a pointed contrast between receiving a miracle and returning in gratitude.

As Jesus passes the Jericho region on the final approach to Jerusalem, blind men cry out for mercy. Mark names Bartimaeus, son of Timaeus, while Matthew records two blind men.

Despite attempts by the crowd to silence them, the appeal continues. Jesus restores sight, and the healed men follow Him. The location places the miracle on the road toward the final Passover.

Near Jerusalem, Jesus approaches a fig tree with leaves but finds no fruit and pronounces judgment upon it.

Mark notes that by the following morning the tree has withered from the roots. The sign frames Jesus' Temple actions and becomes a lesson to the disciples concerning faith and prayer.

During Jesus' arrest, a disciple strikes the servant of the high priest and cuts off his right ear. John identifies the servant as Malchus and the disciple as Peter.

Luke records Jesus touching the wounded ear and healing him. The miracle occurs in the middle of the arrest itself, meaning Jesus heals a member of the party that has come to seize Him.

As Jesus hung upon the cross, the Gospel writers record a remarkable succession of signs surrounding His death. From about the sixth hour until the ninth hour, darkness came over the land. At the moment Jesus yielded up the ghost, Matthew records that the veil of the Temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom, the earth quaked, the rocks were rent, and graves were opened. Matthew then states that many bodies of the saints which slept arose and, after Christ's resurrection, entered the holy city and appeared unto many.

The signs were witnessed in a public setting. Matthew records that the centurion and those with him, after seeing the earthquake and the things that were done, feared greatly and declared, “Truly this was the Son of God.” Mark likewise records the centurion's confession, while Luke records both the darkness and the Temple veil being rent and says the centurion glorified God. Together the accounts place darkness, the torn veil, earthquake, opened graves and the reaction of the Roman guard around the death of Jesus.

After the Crucifixion and burial, the women come to the tomb and find the stone moved and the tomb empty. The four Gospels preserve complementary details involving angels, the women, Peter and John, Mary Magdalene and the disciples.

The record does not end with an empty tomb. Jesus appears alive, speaks, is touched, eats, shows His wounds and meets disciples in Jerusalem and Galilee. Paul later summarizes appearances to Cephas, the Twelve, more than five hundred brethren at once, James, all the apostles and finally himself in 1 Corinthians 15.

After the Resurrection, seven disciples fish through the night and catch nothing. At morning Jesus stands on the shore, though they initially do not recognize Him, and directs them to cast the net on the right side.

The resulting catch is so great that they cannot draw the net into the boat. John records the exact total as 153 great fishes and notes that despite the number the net does not break. The meal on shore becomes one of the Gospel's final resurrection scenes.