Eight Signs of Jesus

As it was shown when Jesus healed two blind men and a servant, having faith results in action. In Matthew, two blind men called out to Jesus, and the crowd told them to be quiet (Doc. 1). This caused them to shout even louder, so Jesus walked over to them and asks what they want. The men said that they were blind and wanted their sight back. Matthew 20: 31 says, “Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him” (Doc. 1). Basically, all it took was one touch from Jesus, and they could see. These men proved their faith by not giving up when they were rebuked by the crowd and believing that Jesus could and would heal them. Because of this faith, Jesus took action and gave them sight.

Harris, R. L. (1999). 68 אָחַר. (R. L. Harris, G. L. Archer Jr., & B. K. Waltke, Eds.)Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament. Chicago: Moody Press.

Throughout the Gospel of John the term “belief” is used in multiple ways for different reasons. Belief is employed as a means to give the reader motivation to believe in Jesus and God which will bring them to eternal glory and happiness. This belief can be rewarded with eternal life, as well as a personal connection to Jesus Christ. God can also be seen and believed in if one only believes in Jesus and allows for a wholesome connection to the Father and Son. In addition to beginning to understand the use of “belief” in the Gospel of John, one must correctly infer from his words and deduce their meaning.

Vine, W. E. (2006). Vine's concise dictionary of the Bible. Nashville TN: Nelson Reference & Electronic.

John H. Walton’s Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament: Introducing the Conceptual World of the Hebrew Bible is broken up into fourteen chapters. Those fourteen chapters are each part of one of five sections. This book also contains over twenty historical images. Before the introduction, the author gives readers a full appendix of all images used in this published work. The author then gives his acknowledgements followed by a list of abbreviations.

Blomberg, Craig L., Jennifer Foutz Markley. A Handbook of New Testament Exegesis. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2010.

Blomberg, Craig L. The New American Commentary: An Exegetical and Theological Exposition of Holy Scripture: Matthew. Tennessee: Broadman Press, 1992.

In editing this book, Clouse hoped "that these [four] articles [and responses would] aid the serious student of Scripture in formulating his or her own conclusions concerning the interpretation of the millennium."

Elwell, Walter A., and Barry J. Beitzel. Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1988. Print.

In the New Testament, the Apostle John’s reason for recording the Savior’s miracles is namely, “that [we] might believe that Jesus is the Christ” (John 20:31). The marvelous deeds of our Savior testify of His saving and healing nature to all of His disciples, ancient and modern. John’s Gospel can be divided into two halves: the “Book of Signs” (chapters 2-11) which includes the public ministry of Christ as He traveled to and from Galilee and Judea performing miracles, teaching, and publicly engaging His adversaries,[1] and the “Book of Glory” (chapters 12–20) which captures the private ministry of Jesus as He taught His disciples in closed settings and progressed toward the atoning sacrifice.[2] The focus of this essay will be the miracles

The First sign in John’s gospel is when Jesus changed water into wine at a ceremony. Second sign will be that with a word of command Jesus cured a son of a royal. The third sign is that Jesus healed a man who was paralyzed for a long time. The fourth sign is when Jesus multiplied seven loaves and fishes to feed the people who gathered to hear his word. These signs revealed to the reader that Jesus has control over the world, nature and materialistic stuff. Jesus also has a lot of power to create and restore what was broken. Jesus to the readers appeats as loving and wise. The signs also revealed Gods power to heal and give life to those who thought there was no

The Day of Judgment signs and the Signs of the Hour in the Islamic religion is a set of phenomena and events indicates the closeness of the occurrence of the Day of Judgment. The hour is: a time when the resurrection happens, and it’s called the hour because it happens suddenly to surprise people and to make them die all at once.

The second sign that Jesus performed in the book of John is the healing of the nobleman’s son (4:46¬–54). This sign is more easily found because Jesus here calls out the nobleman, saying that unless he sees “signs and miracles,” he simply won’t believe (v.48). In this passage, an official comes to Jesus asking him to heal his son. However, the official wants Jesus to go to his house. Jesus decides to answer his request but in a different way. Instead of going to the man’s house, Jesus simply told him that if he believed and went home, his son would be healed. The official did as told, and his son was healed. Jesus performed another miracle, but how is his deity displayed. Jesus shows his deity here by healing the official’s son by simply speaking and not seeing nor touching. During this time, just like every other time in history, there have been doctors. If Jesus went to the official’s house and healed the boy, it could be possible that Jesus would be viewed as such. However, since Jesus did the miracle just by spoken word, his power must be great. In fact, He must be God.

The Book of John’s main purpose is to deliver the news of salvation to readers (Elwell & Yarbrough, Encountering the New Testament: A Historical and Theological Survey, 101). Yet, John includes Jesus’s performance of eight miraculous signs, which the author and many other people witnessed during Christ’s ministry on earth. Their testimonies show readers that Jesus Christ is the almighty Son of God, and His miracles reveal His greatness. During Jesus’ earthly ministry, He served as a role model and provided teachings that serve as the basis that Christians still follow currently. Yet, many Christians are in awe of Jesus’ great power as revealed in John, and the eyewitness accounts that portray the life of Jesus in this Gospel inspire others to follow Christ (Encountering the New Testament: A Historical and Theological Survey, 97). Jesus’ miracles in The Book of John include: turning water into wine, healing people, feeding the 5,000, walking on water, and raising the dead (Holy Bible, John, 2-21).

Although there are many signs throughout the Gospel of John (John 2:1-11), the wedding at Cana was one of the first signs that Jesus performed within his lifetime. The story beings explaining the scene, “On the third day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding” (John 2:1-2). Understanding those who were acquainted with Jesus were all present during the wedding allows for the reader to assume that this could have been the first sign Jesus was able to show his loving disciples that he truly was the divine power. Although the disciples of Jesus did believe that he was truly the Messiah, they had not physically seen an actual miracle to be performed by the divine being. Realizing that not only was this the first physical sign that Jesus performed to the people of Galilee, but also to his immediate followers, is an incredible fact that not many take into consideration.