Miracles of Christ

For the longest time I’ve wanted to memorize various facts and facets about the life of Christ. So, allow me a little bit of selfishness with this post. I’m typing all this out and posting it in the hope to better remember the miracles Christ performed during His public life. By the way, by this count, found in the St Joseph’s edition of the New American Bible (page 349), there were 36 of them.

1. Water Made Wine (John 2:1-11)

2. The Royal Official’s Son (John 4:46-54)

3. The Catch of Fishes (Luke 5:1-11)

4. The Cure of a Demoniac (Mark 1:23-28, Luke 4:33-37)

5. Peter’s Mother-in-law (Matthew 8:14-15, Mark 1:29-31, Luke 4:38-39)

6. The Leper (Matthew 8:1-4, Mark 1:40-45, Luke 5:12-19)

7. The Paralytic at Capernaum (Matthew 9:1-8, Mark 2:1-12, Luke 5:18-26)

8. The Cure at Bethesda (John 5:1-15)

9. The Man with a Shriveled Hand (Matthew 12:9-13, Mark 3:1-6, Luke 6:6-11)

10. The Centurion’s Servant (Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 7:1-10)

11. The Widow’s Son (Luke 7:11-17)

12. The Blind and Dumb Demoniac (Matthew 12:22)

13. Calming of the Storm (Matthew 8:23-27, Mark 4:35-41, Luke 8:22-25)

14. Expulsion of the Demons in Gadara (Matthew 8:29-34, Mark 5:1-20, Luke 8:26-39)

15. Jairus’ Daughter (Matthew 9:18-26, Mark 5:21-43, Luke 8:40-56)

16. The Woman in the Crowd (Matthew 9:20-22, Mark 5:24-34, Luke 8:43-48)

17. Two Blind Men (Matthew 9:27-31)

18. The Possessed Mute (Matthew 9:32-34)

19. Five Thousand Fed (Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6:34-44, Luke 9:12-17, John 6:1-15)

20. Jesus Walks on the Water (Matthew 14:22-33, Mark 6:45-52, John 6:16-21)

21. The Canaanite Woman (Matthew 15:21-28, Mark 7:24-30)

22. Healing of a Deaf Mute (Mark 7:31-37)

23. Four Thousand Fed (Matthew 15:32-38, Mark 8:1-9)

24. The Blind Man at Bethsaida (Mark 8:22)

25. A Possessed Boy (Matthew 17:14-21, Mark 9:13-28, Luke 9:37-43)

26. The Temple Tax Provided (Matthew 17:23-36)

27. The Man Born Blind (John 9:1-38)

28. The Crippled, Blind and Mute (Matthew 15:29)

29. A Woman Cured (Luke 13:10-17)

30. The Raising of Lazarus (John 11:1-44)

31. The Man with the Dropsy (Luke 14:1-6)

32. Ten Lepers (Luke 17:11-19)

33. The Blind Men at Jericho (Matthew 20:29-34, Mark 10:46-52, Luke 18:35-43)

34. The Fig Tree Cursed (Matthew 21:18-22, Mark 11:12-14)

35. The Servant’s Ear Healed (Luke 22:49-51)

36. The Catch of Fishes (John 21:1-14)


Did you ever realize there was so many?


Notes:

The only miracle found in all four Gospels is the Feeding of the Five Thousand.

Matthew records the most miracles, 21, followed by Luke with 19, Mark with 18, and John with 8.

All Gospels record Jesus bringing a dead person back to life (Luke records two):

- Jairus’ daughter (Matthew, Mark, and Luke)
- The widow’s son (Luke)
- Lazarus (John)

Ten of the thirty-six miracles are common to each of the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke)