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 WHAT MIRACLES ARE SAID TO HAVE BEEN DONE BY JESUS? A lot. Most commonly, according to the Gospels, he travelled around northern Palestine healing the sick and casting evil spirits out of people. He cured leprosy, paralysis, blindness, deafness and dumbness, among other conditions, and on three occasions raised the dead. There are also a number of miracles reported that showed his command over nature as well as the human body, including walking on water, calming a storm, turning water into wine and multiplying a few loaves and fishes to feed 5,000 people. Probably the oddest miracle story of the biblical Gospels concerns a fig tree which Jesus cursed for having no figs (which was a bit hard, because it wasn't the season for figs anyway). When Jesus and the disciples passed the tree on the day following the curse, the tree had "withered from the roots" (Mark11:20). In the later "Gospels" which were never accepted into the canon of the New Testament, there is no end to the number – or the extravagance – of the miracles attributed to Jesus. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are a wonder of self-restraint in comparison. More questions about Jesus' life |
Picture: carvings showing the story of Christ on the west front of Chartres Cathedral, France. |
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