37 Miracles of Christ Jesus
The miracles Christ Jesus performed are listed below:
The
Miracles of Jesus
37 Miracles
of Jesus
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1
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2:1-11
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2
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Jesus Heals
an Official's Son
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4:43-54
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3
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Jesus Drives
Out an Evil Spirit
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1:21-27
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4:31-36
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4
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Jesus Heals
Peter's Mother-in-Law
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8:14-15
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1:29-31
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4:38-39
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5
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Jesus Heals
Many Sick at Evening
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8:16-17
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1:32-34
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4:40-41
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6
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First
Miraculous Catch of Fish
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5:1-11
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7
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Jesus
Cleanses a Man With Leprosy
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8:1-4
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1:40-45
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5:12-14
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8
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Jesus Heals
a Centurion's Servant
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8:5-13
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7:1-10
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9
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Jesus Heals
a Paralytic
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9:1-8
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2:1-12
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5:17-26
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10
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Jesus Heals
a Man's Withered Hand
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12:9-14
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3:1-6
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6:6-11
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11
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Jesus Raises
a Widow's Son in Nain
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7:11-17
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12
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Jesus Calms
a Storm
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8:23-27
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4:35-41
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8:22-25
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13
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Jesus Casts
Demons into a Herd of Pigs
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8:28-33
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5:1-20
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8:26-39
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14
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Jesus Heals
a Woman in the Crowd
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9:20-22
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5:25-34
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8:42-48
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15
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Jesus Raises
Jairus' Daughter to Life
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9:18,
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5:21-24,
35-43 |
8:40-42,
49-56 |
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16
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Jesus Heals
Two Blind Men
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9:27-31
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17
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Jesus Heals
a Man Unable to Speak
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9:32-34
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18
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Jesus Heals
an Invalid at Bethesda
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5:1-15
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19
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14:13-21
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6:30-44
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9:10-17
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6:1-15
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20
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14:22-33
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6:45-52
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6:16-21
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21
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Jesus Heals
Many Sick in Gennesaret
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14:34-36
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6:53-56
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22
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Jesus Heals
a Gentile Woman's Demon-Possessed Daughter
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15:21-28
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7:24-30
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23
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Jesus Heals
a Deaf and Dumb Man
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7:31-37
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24
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Jesus Feeds
4,000
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15:32-39
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8:1-13
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25
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Jesus Heals
a Blind Man at Bethsaida
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8:22-26
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26
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Jesus Heals
a Man Born Blind
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9:1-12
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27
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Jesus Heals
a Boy with a Demon
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17:14-20
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9:14-29
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9:37-43
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28
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Miraculous
Temple Tax in a Fish's Mouth
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17:24-27
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29
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Jesus Heals
a Blind, Mute Demoniac
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12:22-23
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11:14-23
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30
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Jesus Heals
a Crippled Woman
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13:10-17
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31
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Jesus Heals
a Man With Dropsy on the Sabbath
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14:1-6
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32
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Jesus
Cleanses Ten Lepers
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17:11-19
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33
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11:1-45
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34
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Jesus
Restores Sight to Bartimaeus
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20:29-34
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10:46-52
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18:35-43
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35
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Jesus
Withers the Fig Tree
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21:18:22
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11:12-14
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36
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Jesus Heals
a Servant's Severed Ear
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22:50-51
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37
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Second
Miraculous Catch of Fish
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21:4-11
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However, Christ Jesus preached just for a few years.
A chronology of Jesus typically has the date of the start of his ministry estimated at around 27-29 AD/CE and the end in the range 30-36 AD/CE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Jesus
Suppose that there is another Jesus today. He is accompanied by some followers. If They traveled, say, from Washington DC to New York in three years, They will meet so many people per day. In this case, Christ has to perform one miracle at least every hour. Then, 12 miracles per day for three years can total more than 13,000 miracles.
Of course, 2000 years ago not so many people lived between Galilee and Jerusalem.
Tacitus declares that Jerusalem at its fall contained 600,000 persons; Josephus, that there were as many as 1,100,000 slain in the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, along with 97,000 who were sold as slaves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jewish_population_comparisonsHowever, we may assume that Christ Jesus performed one miracle at least every week. Then in three years, he must have done 140 or so miracles. The number of miracles listed in the above table is just 37. It is almost one miracle per month, though the Bible said that there were many other miracles the Bible could not contain.
Joh 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.But the Four Gospels present Jesus' miracles in an overlapping way. Why could not they report very different miracles if the authors of the Gospels had chosen miracles to report independent of one another?
The answer might be that Christ Jesus had at least 11 close followers each of whom remembered miracles they saw and loved. So, when one follower wrote down what Christ Jesus did for his own reference, he would surely choose miracles he had observed closely and he had been moved so much. If all the sources of the Four Gospels had been one, it would be very reasonable that total only 37 miracles are mentioned in the Four Gospels in a strong overlapping manner.
But as there were 11 Disciples, we may assume that at least total 400 or so miracles Christ worked (11 x 37 = 407). There may be still double counting. So we can assume that the real number was one third of 400. It is very roughly 140. Then Christ Jesus performed miracles at least every week, four in months, 48 in a year, and 140 in three years of His mission.
Anyway, it seems to be sure that there was only one source for the Four Gospels, since the total number of Jesus' miracles reported there was just 37.
But why one per week? Was the band of Christ Jesus 2000 years ago mostly walking through desolate wilderness or paths? It seems so, indeed. But how could they feed themselves? A mystery still remains.
By the way, there is a theory that the number 37 means a hexagram, God, and greatness. Can this be a minor miracle?
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Mar 12:10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
Mar 12:11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?