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In most cases, Christian authors associate each miracle with specific teachings that reflect the message of Jesus. [10]In The Miracles of Jesus, H. Van der Loos describes two main categories of miracles attributed to Jesus: those that affected people (such as Jesus healing the blind man of Bethsaida), or "healings", and those that "controlled nature" (such as Jesus walking on water).
The miracles are reported as taking place years apart from each other, but in both miracles apostles are fishing unsuccessfully in the Sea of Galilee when Jesus tells them to try one more cast of the net, at which they are rewarded with a great catch (or "draught", as in "haul" or "weight"). Either is thus sometimes called a "miraculous draught ...
Jefferson never referred to his work as a Bible, and the full title of this 1804 version was The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth, being Extracted from the Account of His Life and Doctrines Given by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; Being an Abridgement of the New Testament for the Use of the Indians, Unembarrased [uncomplicated] with Matters of ...
Jesus is then called "Son" by a voice in the sky, assumed to be God the Father, as in the Baptism of Jesus. [108] The Transfiguration is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels. [109] [110] [111] This miracle is unique among others that appear in the Canonical gospels, in that the miracle happens to Jesus himself. [112]
The Feeding of the 5,000 is also known as the "miracle of the five loaves and two fish"; the Gospel of John reports that Jesus used five loaves and two fish supplied by a boy to feed a multitude. According to the Gospel of Matthew , when Jesus heard that John the Baptist had been killed, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place.
According to Paulus, the miracles can be explained as misunderstandings: something perfectly natural took place, but Jesus' disciples were confused by the circumstances. [2] For example, Paulus' naturalistic exegesis of the narrative of Jesus walking on water is that περιπατῶν ἐπὶ τὴν θάλασσαν ( Matthew 14:25 ) really ...
Jesus heals the paralytic at Capernaum (Galway City Museum, Ireland) Jesus heals the man with palsy by Alexandre Bida (1875) Healing the paralytic at Capernaum is one of the miracles of Jesus in the synoptic Gospels (Matthew 9:1–8, Mark 2:1–12, and Luke 5:17–26).
There is a widespread scholarly view that the Gospel of John can be broken into four parts: a prologue, (John 1:–1:18), the Book of Signs (1:19 to 12:50), the Book of Glory (or Exaltation) (13:1 to 20:31) and an epilogue (chapter 21).