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20. Feeding 5000 men and their families
21. Walking on water
22. Miraculous healing of many people in Gennesaret
23. Healing a girl possessed by a demon
24. Healing a deaf man with a speech impediment
25. Feeding the 4,000 men and their families
26. Healing a blind man
27. Healing a man born blind
28. Healing a demon-possessed boy
29. Catching a fish with a coin in its mouth
30. Healing a blind and mute man who was demon-possessed
31. Healing a woman with an 18-year infirmity
32. Healing a man with dropsy
33. Healing 10 lepers
34. Raising of Lazarus
35. Healing Bartimaeus of blindness
36. Jesus curses the fig tree with no fruit
37. Restoring a severed ear
38. The resurrection of Jesus
39. Catching 153 fish
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40. The ascension of Jesus

2 Corinthians 12:12 says, The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience,
with signs and wonders and mighty works. The miracles done by the apostles validated their authority
and words. Remember, God was using them to pen many of the books in the Bible. What they said was
from God, being validated by their ability to perform miracles. As people saw the miracles they could
do, they then trusted that what they proclaimed was from God.

All the miracles had a purpose—to prove that God is like no one else, that He has complete control of
creation because He is its source, and to convince us that if He can do all these miraculous things,
nothing in our lives is too hard for Him to handle. He wants us to trust Him and know that He can do
miracles in our lives as well. If the miracles did not occur, then how can we trust anything the Bible tells
us, especially when it tells us eternal life is available through Christ? When we begin to call any part of
Scripture into doubt, all of God’s marvelous plan is suspect, and we open the door for the lies and
distortions which are Satan’s plan to destroy our faith (1 Peter 5:8). The Bible is to be read and
understood literally, including the miracles.

Jesus of Nazareth – His miracles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tbaMK3GjSY

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