"Feeding the multitude Feeding the multitude is a term used to refer to two separate miracles of Jesus reported in the Gospels. The first miracle, ""Feeding of the 5,000"", is reported by all four gospels (; ; ; ). The second miracle, the ""Feeding of the 4,000"", with seven loaves of bread and fish, is reported by and , but not by Luke or John. The Feeding of the 5,000 is also known as the ""miracle of the five loaves and two fish""; the Gospel of John reports that Jesus used five barley loaves and two small fish supplied by"
"four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) in the Bible, as well as being the focus of the subsequent books of the New Testament. Some stories common to all four Gospels include that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist, subsequently traveled as an itinerant preacher and healer, took on twelve apostles, miraculously fed 5000 people at least once, entered Jerusalem on a donkey, drove merchants from the Second Temple, predicted his betrayal by one of his disciples, was crucified, but resurrected from death. It must be noted that each gospel represents a different perspective, with some different information and"
"the only miracle story that originated in Q. One possibility is that only the dialogue was in Q, and both Matthew and Luke added the background details from a shared oral history. The Gospel of John narrates a similar account of Jesus healing the son of a royal official at Capernaum at a distance in . Some, such as in Fred Craddock in his commentary on Luke, treat them as the same miracle. However, in his analysis of Matthew, R. T. France presents linguistic arguments against the equivalence of ""pais"" and son and considers these two separate miracles. Merrill C."
"by Jesus is only recorded in the Gospel of Luke. Jesus arrived at the village of Nain during the burial ceremony of the son of a widow, and raised the young man from the dead. The location is the village of Nain in Galilee, two miles south of Mount Tabor. This is the first of three miracles of Jesus in the canonical gospels in which he raises the dead, the other two being the raising of Jairus' daughter and of Lazarus. Following the healing, Jesus fame spread ""throughout all Judea and all the surrounding region"". In the Cambridge Bible for"
"Gospel of Mark The Gospel According to Mark () is one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels. It tells of the ministry of Jesus from his baptism by John the Baptist to his death and burial and the discovery of the empty tomb – there is no genealogy of Jesus or birth narrative, nor, in the original ending at chapter 16, any post-resurrection appearances. It portrays Jesus as a heroic man of action, an exorcist, a healer, and a miracle worker. Jesus is also the Son of God, but he keeps his identity secret"
"of what is happening. The death and resurrection of Jesus are treated as the climax of the story, the point to which everything else has been moving all the while. Another characteristic of the gospel accounts is that they include only a plain description of the events. Unlike elsewhere in the gospels, there is an absence of any citation of the Hebrew scriptures to contextualize or interpret the resurrection appearances. N.T. Wright calls this ""The Strange Silence of the Bible in the Stories."" Wright explains that ""[t]he very strong probability is that when Matthew, Luke and John describe the risen"
"among the books of the New Testament includes only the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) and the Book of Revelation. Only these books contain an internal symbolism in a series, and are thus divinely inspired. Although this leaves out the Book of Acts and the letters of the apostles, the New Church holds them in esteem similar to that of the Jews for the Writings of the Old Testament. Swedenborg stated that these books were included as an act of divine providence, as books explaining Christian doctrine were needed for the general public. Paul's letters, although not containing a"
"Raising of Lazarus The raising of Lazarus or the resurrection of Lazarus is a miracle of Jesus recounted only in the Gospel of John (John 11:1–44) in which Jesus brings Lazarus of Bethany back to life four days after his burial. In John, this is the last of the miracles that Jesus performs before the Passion and his own resurrection. Lazarus is the brother of Martha and Mary. The family lives in the village of Bethany, about two miles east of Jerusalem on the south-eastern slope of the Mount of Olives. According to John 11:1-44, Jesus receives a message that"
"Biblical Magi The biblical Magi ( or ; singular: magus), also referred to as the (Three) Wise Men or (Three) Kings, were, in the Gospel of Matthew and Christian tradition, a group of distinguished foreigners who visited Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. They are regular figures in traditional accounts of the nativity celebrations of Christmas and are an important part of Christian tradition. Matthew is the only of the four canonical gospels to mention the Magi. Matthew reports that they came ""from the east"" to worship the ""king of the Jews"". The gospel never"
"29 scenes of the miracles (now 27), probably derived from a Greek gospel book. The scenes originating in the apocryphal Gospels that remain a feature of the depiction of ""Life of the Virgin"" have fewer equivalents in the ""Life of Christ"", although some minor details, like the boys climbing trees in the ""Entry to Jerusalem"", are tolerated. The Harrowing of Hell was not an episode witnessed or mentioned by any of the Four Evangelists but was approved by the Church, and the Lamentation of Christ, though not specifically described in the Gospels, was thought to be implied by the accounts"
"as a call to forsake all possessions to follow Jesus. Others read it simply as a matter of have Christ be the center of one's heart. Luke 14 Luke 14 is the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records one miracle performed by Jesus Christ on a Sabbath day, followed by His teachings and parables. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles. The New King James Version organises this chapter as"
"four gospels in the New Testament narrates the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. The word ""gospel"" derives from the Old English ""gōd-spell"" (rarely ""godspel""), meaning ""good news"" or ""glad tidings"". The gospel was considered the ""good news"" of the coming Kingdom of Messiah, and the redemption through the life and death of Jesus, the central Christian message. Gospel is a calque (word-for-word translation) of the Greek word , ""euangelion"" (""eu-"" ""good"", ""-angelion"" ""message""). Since the 2nd century, the four narrative accounts of the life and work of Jesus Christ have been referred to as ""The Gospel of"
"Miracles of Jesus The miracles of Jesus are the supernatural deeds attributed to Jesus in Christian and Islamic texts. The majority are faith healings, exorcisms, resurrection, control over nature and forgiveness of sins. In the Synoptic Gospels (Mark, Matthew, and Luke), Jesus refuses to give a miraculous sign to prove his authority. In the Gospel of John, Jesus is said to have performed seven miraculous signs that characterize his ministry, from changing water into wine at the start of his ministry to raising Lazarus from the dead at the end. For many Christians and Muslims, the miracles are actual historical"
"in ) is to come into the world"" (). This story, which appears only in Mark and Matthew, is also known as the miracle of the seven loaves and fishes, as the Gospel of Matthew refers to seven loaves and a few small fish used by Jesus to feed a multitude. According to the Gospels, a large crowd had gathered and was following Jesus. Jesus called his disciples to him and said: ""I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry,"
"Lazarus of Bethany Lazarus of Bethany, also known as Saint Lazarus or Lazarus of the Four Days, is the subject of a prominent miracle of Jesus in the Gospel of John, in which Jesus restores him to life four days after his death. The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic traditions offer varying accounts of the later events of his life. In the context of the seven signs in the Gospel of John, the raising of Lazarus is the climactic narrative: exemplifying the power of Jesus ""over the last and most irresistible enemy of humanity—death. For this reason it is given"
"story is notable for being the only one common between the gospels of Mark and Luke, but not contained in the Gospel of Matthew (see Synoptic Gospels for more literary comparison between the gospels). Afterwards, he healed Simon Peter's mother-in-law of a fever (). According to and , it is also the place where Jesus healed the servant of a Roman centurion who had asked for his help. Capernaum is also the location of the healing of the paralytic lowered through the roof to reach Jesus reported in and . In the town is referred to only as ""his own"
"when two reported miracles refer to the same event. For example, in the Healing the Centurion's servant, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke narrate how Jesus healed the servant of a Roman Centurion in Capernaum at a distance. The Gospel of John has a similar but slightly different account at Capernaum, and states that it was the son of a royal official who was cured at a distance. The largest group of miracles mentioned in the New Testament involves cures. The Gospels give varying amounts of detail for each episode, sometimes Jesus cures simply by saying a few words, at"
"boat ahead of him to Bethsaida. It is night and they are only halfway across when Jesus walks across the lake and meets them. At first they are scared and think it is a ghost, but Jesus reveals himself and gets into the boat, amazing the disciples. These two miracles occur in John 6:1-24 and Matthew 14:13-36 and the feeding of the crowd is in Luke 9:10-17. The feeding of the 5,000 people and the resurrection of Jesus appear to be the only miracles recorded simultaneously in all four Gospels. They reach Gennesaret and people recognize Jesus. People bring sick"
"Matthew 8:4 Matthew 8:4 is the fourth verse of the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. This verse concludes the miracle story of Jesus cleansing a leper, the first of a series of miracles in Matthew. In the original Greek according to Westcott-Hort this verse is: In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: The English Standard Version translates the passage as: One issue with this verse is that has large crowds surrounding Jesus, which seems to contradict the pledge to secrecy. This verse is paralleled at -, but Mark does not"
"Historical reliability of the Gospels The historical reliability of the Gospels refers to the reliability and historic character of the four New Testament gospels as historical documents. Some believe that all four canonical gospels meet the five criteria for historical reliability; and others say that little in the gospels is considered to be historically reliable. Almost all scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed, but scholars differ on the historicity of specific episodes described in the Biblical accounts of Jesus, and the only two events subject to ""almost universal assent"" are that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist and"
"Mark 8 Mark 8 is the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It contains two miracles of Jesus, Peter's confession that he believes Jesus is the Messiah, and Jesus' first prediction of his own death and resurrection. It is the middle chapter of the gospel but its significance is variously understood: for example the Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary calls it a ""section of miscellaneous matter"" whereas many commentators treat it as a turning point where Mark's description of Jesus as teacher and miracle worker gives way to his focus on the role"
"Luke 14 Luke 14 is the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records one miracle performed by Jesus Christ on a Sabbath day, followed by His teachings and parables. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles. The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows (with cross references to passages in Matthew's gospel): Free Church minister William Robertson Nicoll describes verses 1-24 as ""a digest of sayings of Jesus at"
"Synoptic Gospels, Jesus performed many exorcisms of demoniacs. These incidents are not mentioned in the Gospel of John and appear to have been excluded due to theological considerations. The seven major exorcism accounts in the Synoptic Gospels which have details, and imply specific teachings, are: There are also brief mentions of other exorcisms, e.g.: All four canonical gospels describe the resurrection of Jesus; three of them also relate a separate occasion on which Jesus calls a dead person back to life: The Gospels include eight pre-resurrection accounts concerning Jesus' power over nature: Post-resurrection miracles attributed to Jesus are also recorded"
"Jesus walking on water Jesus walking on water is one of the miracles of Jesus recounted in the New Testament. There are accounts of this event in the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and John, but is not included in the Gospel of Luke. This story, following the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand, tells how Jesus sent the disciples by ship back to the ""other side"" of the Sea of Galilee (the western side) while he remained behind, alone, to pray. Night fell and the sea arose as the ship became caught in a wind storm. After rowing"
"Cana might have been. In his Gospel, the author makes no claim to have been at the wedding. Many would regard the story of the wedding at Cana as of theological rather than historical or topographical significance; it is the first of the seven miraculous """"signs"""" by which Jesus's divine status is attested, and around which the gospel is structured. The consensus of modern scholarship is that the Fourth Gospel was addressed to a group of Jewish Christians, and very possibly a group living in Judea province; so it is unlikely that the evangelist would have mentioned a place that"
"reckon thirty-three in all; but some have raised the number even to sixty, by including proverbial expressions"". The Gospel of Luke contains both the largest total number of parables (24) and eighteen unique parables; the Gospel of Matthew contains 23 parables of which eleven are unique; and the Gospel of Mark contains eight parables of which two are unique. In ""Harmony of the Gospels"", Cox and Easley provide a Gospel harmony for the parables based on the following counts: Only in Matthew: 11, only in Mark: 2, only in Luke: 18, Matthew and Luke: 4, Matthew, Mark and Luke: 6."
"Gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message itself, but in the 2nd century it came to be used for the books in which the message was set out. The four canonical gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — were written between AD 70 and 100, and are the main source of information on the life of Jesus. All four are anonymous (the modern names were added in the 2nd century), and none were written by eyewitnesses. Modern scholars are therefore cautious of relying on them unquestioningly, but critical study can attempt to distinguish the original ideas of Jesus from"
"Calming the storm Calming the storm is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels, reported in Matthew 8:23-27, Mark 4:35-41, and Luke 8:22-25 (the Synoptic Gospels). This episode is distinct from Jesus' walk on water which also involves a boat on the lake and appears later in the narrative. According to the Gospels, one evening Jesus and his disciples were crossing the Sea of Galilee in a boat, when a furious storm came up, with the waves breaking over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion, but the"
"Word, and affirming what the angel Gabriel had previously announced to Mary as detailed in the Gospel. The miracle of creating birds from clay and breathing life into them when a child is mentioned in al-Imran (3) 43, 49 and al-Maida (5) 109-110. Although this miracle is also not mentioned the canonical Gospel, the same narrative is found in at least two pre-Islamic sources: the Infancy Gospel of Thomas and the Jewish Toledot Yeshu, with few variant details between the Quran and these two sources. Similar to the New Testament, the Quran mentions Jesus healing the blind and the lepers"
"Four Evangelists In Christian tradition, the Four Evangelists are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the authors attributed with the creation of the four Gospel accounts in the New Testament that bear the following titles: Gospel according to Matthew; Gospel according to Mark; Gospel according to Luke and Gospel according to John. The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are known as the Synoptic Gospels, because they include many of the same stories, often in the same sequence. While the periods to which the gospels are usually dated suggest otherwise, convention traditionally holds that the authors were two of the Twelve"
"them freely and never requested or accepted any form of payment. The gospel episodes that include descriptions of the miracles of Jesus also often include teachings, and the miracles themselves involve an element of teaching. Many of the miracles teach the importance of faith. In the cleansing of ten lepers and the raising of Jairus' daughter, for instance, the beneficiaries are told that their healing was due to their faith. At about the middle of each of the three Synoptic Gospels are two significant events: the Confession of Peter and the Transfiguration of Jesus. These two events are not mentioned"
"and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.<br> And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.<br> And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan. Matthew 4 Matthew 4 is the fourth chapter of the Gospel"
"Gift of miracles In Christian theology, the gift of miracles is among the spiritual gifts (""charismata"") mentioned by St. Paul in his First Epistle to the Corinthians. As a charism, the gift is imparted to individuals by the power of the Holy Spirit. The view of Cessationism held that the ""charismata"" were exclusively for Apostolic times, and therefore the gift of miracles ceased with the writing of the last book of the Bible or the death of St. John the Apostle. In Continuationism, on the other hand, the gifts are held to be possible throughout the history of Christianity, and"