Samuel Nelms
BIBL 323—B16 LOU
Sign Miracle Paper
February 19, 2014
Introduction: In the Gospel of John there are eight miracle signs that are recorded that are performed by Jesus in this Gospel. In the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) the Prince of Life doesn’t show or give any miraculous signs to prove his authority. In the Abramic religions, these eight signs are actual events from the beginning of His ministry with the turning of water into wine to the final miracle of a miraculous catch of fish after the death and resurrection of Christ. Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of His disciples which are not recorded in the book But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah the Son
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The aim of this sign was simple belief and the first real sign of salvation. If you just believe in Christ you will be saved, the man didn’t question Jesus, he believed that the Lord could and would heal his son and because of that belief and faith it was so. This miracle reveals Christ’ power over space because He did not travel to Capernaum but just spoke the words and he was healed.
Healing of a Lame Man: There was a man who had been lame for thirty-eight years and lay by the pool every day waiting on someone to carry him to the pool of Bethesda. The pool of Bethesda was an annual tradition or even myth that whoever got to the pool first, after the water in wrestled by an Angle of the Lord they would be completely healed. The name Bethesda means “house of mercy”, and its waters were thought that under certain circumstance to have certain powers. The pool of Bethesda was a long rectangular used to clean animals about to be taken to the temple for sacrifice. The water was two to three feet deep and according to tradition, was left filthy by animals. From the edge of the pool down to the water was twenty to thirty foot long. The man was unable to get into the water by himself, so he was there a very long time. Jesus asked the man if he would like to be healed, and told him to get up, at once the man was healed, he picked up his mat and walked. Jesus performed this miracle on the Sabbath and did things that the Pharisees could not do.
This reflects their intentions of following Christ. They are not following to help him, but find fault with him. Many of the people at the pool of Bethesda are waiting for the disturbance of the water so that they may be healed of their illnesses by it miraculous powers. In the painting, Bloch’s use of color depicts the water as dirty implying that it may not have miraculous powers that the people believe it does. The elderly man had not been able to bathe in these waters and be healed from his disease for thirty-eight years. When Christ heals this man, he does not help him to the water; he tells him to rise and walk and he is healed. Christ is the one that the people should believe in to be healed. This shows that Christ being a perfect being wants to help those in need and he is the one that has the power to perform miracles. Bloch effectively uses body position in the painting Christ Healing at the Pool of Bethesda to add to the theme of Christ being there to help people.
Another thing people usually think about when they think about Jesus is that he is associated with miracles. He healed a blind man, healed a leper, turned water into wine, healed a paralyzed man, and so much more. When people think Jesus, they think of the man who walked on water.
Christ heals the man born blind at the Pool of Siloam (John
Throughout the gospel of Mark, Jesus preforms miraculous miracles with the help of faith in God. Jesus’s miracles consist of healings, exorcism, feeding/ providing source of hydration, and power over natural elements(1). Those who don’t follow Christianity most likely don’t understand the purpose of these miracles. They might understand that the miracles are good but probably not the symbolism of each miracle. Miracles are meant to help Christians grow stronger in their faith and understand the ways of Jesus Christ.
The end of my experiment has concluded several things to me. The first being that word choice is everything when it comes to giving directions. Simply by putting the word lease and telling the student that they had another option caused significant change in the percentage of students who listened to the sign. The second thing I learned being that high schoolers are more careless than I thought. These were printed signs that looked professional as if the school had put them on the doors. Now the wording of each individual sign could have caused difference in doubt within each individual who made the decision to go through the door. For example, a student might have more doubt in the authenticity of the sign “Do Not Enter” than they would with
No one could explain a Palm Sunday miracle but one person and his name is Stan Winder from Ravenel, South Carolina. In 2005 Stan was diagnosed with hereditary spastic paraplegia which refers to a group of inherited disorders that are characterized by progressive weakness and spasticity (stiffness) of the legs. There is no treatment to prevent, slow or reverse the degenerative process. This caused Stan to be wheel chair bound. He could use a walker, but only for short distances. On Palm Sunday morning in 2009 Stan said he heard a voice in his head telling him to do something which seemed impossible and that was to get up and walk. While laying in bed on Palm Sunday Stan was reading his Bible. He was reading from Acts 3, the story of Peter
Jesus also performed a miracle of feeding four-thousand (Matthew 15: 32, Mark 8: 1), which is much like the miracle of Jesus feeding the five-thousand. There were many more astonishing acts performed by the wondrous miracle worker, Jesus. The coin in the fish’s mouth, walking on the water, and raising of Lazarus from the dead, are just a minute amount, out of approximately thirty-six. The miracle of Jesus feeding the five-thousand is just one of the many.
Throughout the New Testament are recounts of the miracles that Jesus performed to give proof that He was indeed the Son of God and the Messiah foretold of in the Old Testament. John chose to recount only seven of the many miracles that Jesus performed. He felt that these seven, more than any of the others, showed definitive proof that the Messiah, the Son of God, had come as promised.
It it said that he preformed seven miracles. However, John is the only gospel that has all of the miracles written in its book. The four miracles that Jesus preformed that are not listed in the other gospels are the healing of a royal official son, the healing of a blind man from birth, the healing of a paralyze man, and the raising of Lazarus from the dead. This shows the significant differences between John and the other three gospels because of more events and details that are being told about Jesus in his time of living. This is something a person will be about to point out because of the amount of events are brought up. A person would think that Jesus fits the description that Peter describe in John 6:69 as the “Holy One of God”. The book of John is the only gospel that included all of the miracles that Jesus preformed. This has significance to it because of what the miracles were and when they are told. This is importance in portraying who Jesus was in John. The main reason is if Jesus preformed all these miracles, then one can easily see who Jesus was in his time of living. One can also get an understanding of why Jesus was consider the “Holy” one and the “Son of
empowerment occur at a body of water, and it is possible that Jesus’ other mighty works related
Jesus saw fisherman at the shoreline and went that way and taught to the people around. When He was done He told Peter and others to go out further into the deeper water and let down their nets. Even though they had not caught anything earlier on, they did as Jesus said to. They caught fish, so many that their nets started breaking and they had to call other fisherman over with more nets. Peter fell to his knees at the feet of Jesus, he was so amazed by what had
This passage tells us how Jesus healed the paralytic man. The passage starts when Jesus was teaching the people, The Pharisees and teacher of the law were also present at this time. This was the time when The Lord gave Jesus the power to heal people. There was a paralyzed man who was carried around by people on a mat, as he could not walk, and they tried to get Jesus’ attention so that He would heal the man. The people tried and tried but they could not get close to Jesus, so they went up to the roof and lowered the man on the mat into the room in front of Jesus. Immediately Jesus healed the man and forgave his sins. The Pharisees
This report presents information on the excavations at the Pool of Siloam and how it relates to the Scriptures. The Pool of Siloam is the site according to the Gospel of John, where Jesus healed the blind man. John 9:5-7 states, “As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing”
Throughout the book of John, Jesus did many signs and miracles. Through these signs, Jesus attempted to show both the multitudes as well as his disciples one small truth about Him—His is God. In this gospel, Jesus goes toe-to-toe with many of the Jewish spiritual leaders (i.e., Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes, etc.) in order to show the people who He truly is. Scholars disagree with how many Messianic signs Jesus performed, but one thing remains—every single sign pointed back to the fact that Jesus was who He claimed to be. The signs performed by Jesus show both the Israelites of old, as well as the people of today, that He is, indeed, God.
John composed this book to show how glorious messiah by using the miraculous signs. It is believed that Jesus performed seven Gospel Signs to prove that he was the messiah. One of the signs that Jesus used happened in Cana in Galilee when he turned water into wine. Jesus was attending a wedding ceremony together with his mother and the twelve disciples. At some point the host announced that they were out of wine and Jesus offered to help by changing 180 gallons of water to vintage wine. This miracle signified that God was present in his life and accommodative. He made his disciples to believe in him (Harris,