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This is that one miracle that many of us wish we could replicate at times when we don’t want to make a trip to the convenience store in the middle of the night! The Gospel of John describes Jesus’ first miracle: turning water into wine at a wedding.

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But how much water was turned into wine, exactly? John 2:1-11 tells us that it was six stone water jars; each containing 20 or 30 gallons (75-113 l). Needless to say, everyone was really impressed! Especially his disciples, who finally got proof of Jesus’ powers.

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Healing the sick -

Jesus healed a lot of people. There are plenty of examples in the Bible, including the time he healed the son of an official in Capernaum, who was dying. Or when he cured the mother-in-law of his disciple Simon Peter.

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But Christ also went on to do some public healing. He actually healed crowds of people. All they had to do was to touch his robe, and voila!

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A disease Jesus heals more than once in the Bible is leprosy. Not only was this condition more common back then, but it also represented those who were excluded from society.

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Jesus, being the son of God, had to be good at getting rid of demons and evil spirits, right? Well, he sure was! On one occasion even the demon confessed that Jesus had control over him as Christ expelled him from a possessed man in Capernaum.

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In Matthew 12:22-23, we find another example, this time of a possessed man who was blind and unable to speak, whom Jesus then healed.

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And there was this one time when Jesus encountered a man possessed not by one, but by several demons, who called themselves the Legion. The demons were cast out and entered a herd of pigs. The pigs then “rushed down the steep bank into the sea and drowned.”

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There was this one time when Jesus healed the servant of a centurion who was paralyzed in bed. This comes to show that Jesus healed both Jews and Gentiles.

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Another example includes a group of men who came to Jesus with their paralytic friend lying on a mat. “Get up, pick up your mat, and go home,” said Jesus, according to Matthew 9:1-8. And the man walked again.

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Luke 13:10-17 mentions an episode when Jesus healed a woman in a synagogue, who had been disabled for over 18 years. “Woman, you are free of your disability,” Christ said.

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Healing the blind in the Bible has more to it than just giving people literal eyesight. There is also the spiritual connotation, of course. A good example would be Bartimaeus, a blind beggar who is healed by his faith.

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Then in Matthew 9:27-31, Jesus proceeds to heal not one, but two blind men. Though again, it was their faith in Jesus that healed them. “Let it be done for you according to your faith!,” proclaimed the Messiah.

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Jesus usually touched the eyes of the blind to heal them, but he also used another method, which is described in John 9:1-12: saliva. “He spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.” That’s how Jesus healed this man who had been blind from birth.

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Jesus keeps on healing -

Throughout the Bible there are several accounts of Jesus engaging in numerous acts of healing. Another example included a man with a paralyzed hand whom Jesus healed on the Sabbath in a synagogue.

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Jesus also tended to very specific conditions. A woman who had suffered from menstrual bleeding for 12 years was healed by her faith, as she touched Jesus’ robe.

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There is also an account of Jesus healing “a man whose body was swollen with fluid.” As well as one where Jesus heals a man’s ear that was cut off by one of his disciples. The man came to arrest Jesus, so it was quite an act of compassion.

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Raising the dead -

Luke 7:11-17 tells of an episode when Jesus brought a young man back to life from his coffin during the funerary procession.

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Raising the dead -

Then we have the story of how Jesus brought Lazarus back to life after he had been dead for four days. “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in Me, even if he dies, will live. Everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die—ever,” said Jesus to Lazarus’ sister, Martha.

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Lots of fish -

Jesus used a miracle to recruit his first disciples: Simon Peter, James, and John. After a night without catching any fish, on Jesus’ command, they “caught a great number of fish, and their nets began to tear.” They quit fishing altogether and followed Jesus thereafter.

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How do you prove to your disciples that you really are Jesus and were resurrected? By performing a similar miracle. How many fish did Jesus' disciples catch? 153 of them, according to John 21:4-11.

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It looks like Jesus does have a thing with fish. When men came to collect the payment of tax from Peter, Jesus helped him out in typical Jesus fashion.

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Jesus told Peter: “[...] go to the sea, cast in a fishhook, and take the first fish that you catch. When you open its mouth you’ll find a coin.” There. Problem solved.

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Calming the storm -

Of course, being the son of God also has its perks when it comes to controlling the elements. And this is exactly what happened during a storm at sea.

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Calming the storm -

Jesus calmed a storm when his disciples came to him desperately asking for help aboard a boat. They were so amazed that they said, “What kind of man is this?—even the winds and the sea obey Him!”

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Feeding people -

You might be familiar with this miracle. There is an account of Jesus feeding a large crowd by multiplying five loaves of bread and two fish.

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How many people were fed exactly? “5,000 men, besides women and children,” according to Matthew 14:13-21. There was so much food that they had 12 baskets left over.

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Walking on water -

This popular miracle is mentioned in Matthew 14:22-33, Mark 6:45-52, and John 6:16-21. Jesus was walking on the water towards the boat where his apostles were, when Peter told the Messiah: “Command me to come to You on the water.”

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Jesus told him to go ahead, but Peter got really scared of the wind. Jesus helped him then and said, “You of little faith, why did you doubt?” The wind then stopped.

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Cursing a fig tree -

Jesus was hungry and approached a fig tree, but when he noticed that it had no fruit, he cursed the tree to never bear fruit again. Did Jesus get a little arrogant on this one or was there some sort of meaning behind Jesus’ action?

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One hypothesis is that the tree represents Israel, and Jesus' frustration at its people's failure to follow God’s will. But again, it might have just been that Jesus got grumpy because he was hungry. Who knows?

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See also: Can these be the lost books of the Bible?

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