Jesus' MiraclesSample

What Do Jesus’ Miracles Prove?

When looking at the miracles of Jesus, it’s surprising that we know so much about them for several reasons. One, Jesus often performed a miracle and then instructed the witnesses not to tell anyone. After Jesus healed a woman and a girl, Mark 5:43 says, “…he strictly charged them that no one should know this...” After healing a deaf man, Mark 7:36 says, “Jesus charged them to tell no one.” After healing a blind man, Jesus told him in Mark 8:26 to avoid crowds who would see him healed, saying, “Do not even enter the village.” Two, Jesus did far more miracles than those recorded in Scripture.

Jesus’ miracles reported in the New Testament also demonstrate that God is with Jesus. Just as miracles confirmed the authority and anointing of the ancient prophets and Jesus’ apostles, the miracles of the Messiah are God’s way of giving His stamp of approval to the claims of Jesus. Jesus says this very thing repeatedly – that His power is proof that He is the Messiah.

The preaching of the early Church also heralded the miracles of Jesus Christ as evidence of His unprecedented claims to be God and Lord. Jesus’ miracles were such a widely known historical fact that Peter said at the launch of the early Church in Acts 2:22, “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know...” When the Church of Jesus Christ expanded from the Jews to the Gentiles, this same proof of Jesus verified as God through His miracles was preached by Peter in Acts 10:37-39 just before the Holy Spirit fell in divine power:

“…you yourselves know what happened...how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him. And we are witnesses of all that he did...” Peter’s sermon then proclaims Jesus’ greatest miracle of all – rising from death!

Christians are supposed to not just look at the miracles but also look at miracles as signs pointing us to something much bigger – King Jesus and His Kingdom.

Why do you think Jesus told people not to tell anyone after He did a miracle for them?