Jesus' miracles Flashcards
What is a miracle?
Incredible coincidence or anusual happening.
Gods power above ordinary laws of nature.
What is the greatest miracle?
Jesus resurrection which shows he is the Messiah
What was Jesus first miracle?
Wedding in Cana
Name two types of miracles?
Nature and healing
What is the only miracle that appears in all 4 gospels?
The feeding of the 5000
What is the healing of the paralysed man?
Jesus was preaching and 4 men carried a paralysed man
Jesus sais his sins were forgiven.
Some teachers thought this was blasphemy.
He stood upwhich showed his faith in Jesus
What is jesus healing on the sabbath about?
Jesus picked corn on the sabbath which upset the pharisees as this was a sign of work. Jesus told the story about King David who took bread from the temple. This upset tgem more.
The next time jesus visted the synagogue on sabbath, he healed a mans paralysed hand which the pharisees were upset by as they said this was also work
What is the raising of Lazarus?
Lazarus (sister mary, martha) was ill and then died (4 days) in judaea.
Jesus was brave returning to judaea as they wanted to stone him
He resurrected Lazarus
‘I am the resurrection and the life’ which showed he was the son of god.
What is the miracle of Wedding in Cana?
Based in Galilee where jesus mum and disciples were.
There was no wine left and Jesus asked his disciples to fill up 6 water jars…when they gave it to the man in charge they were wine filled - the best wine.
Refers to the new world nesus will bring
What is the miracle at sea?
- On a boat, stormy weather in the evening. They woke up jesus who calmed the strong winds and big waves. This refers to the strong relationships and how they looked up to Jesus.
- Jesus walks on water - jesus walked on a lake at night. Peter initially brave but then scared. He had lost his faith.
What was the miracle of the 5000.
near passover festival, lots of people gathered in lake galilee. Jesus asked Philip to bring food. They found 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish. Just like holy communion, jesus gave thanks to the lord and this provided enough food to feed 5000, with 12 baskets remaining. The miracle was that the prophet had come to the world.
