وجبـــــــة روحيـــــ(†)ــــــــــة يوميـــــــــة

[Mary Naeem]

[Mary Naeem]

[Mary Naeem]

[Mary Naeem]

[Mary Naeem]

[Mary Naeem]

[Mary Naeem]

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III

Miracles of Christ Testify to Him


With Respect to His Miracles
(1) The reader is advised to read the two questions on the miracles of the Lord Jesus Christ in Part Two of our book entitled People's Questions Over The Years.





(2) As an introduction to this proof, we state that the miracles of the Lord Jesus Christ are innumerable. It suffices to mention the concluding words of the Gospel according to St. John the Apostle: "And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen" (Jn. 21:25).
For example, St. Luke the Evangelist says: "Now when the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and He laid His hands on every one of them and healed them" (Lk. 4:40). The miracles performed here are collective and innumerable.
St. Matthew the Evangelist says: "Now Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people" (Matt. 4:23). Then the Apostle continues, saying: "And they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them" (Matt. 4:24). Can we enumerate what is implied by the phrases "all kinds of sickness" and "all sick people"?



(3) Therefore, we will confine ourselves, in proving the Divinity of Christ, to the few miracles which are recorded in the Gospels.

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III



The miracles of Christ were of many different types. Among them were miracles of creation, of raising the dead, of walking on the sea and rebuking the wind and waves, ascension to heaven, descent from heaven, entry while doors were shut, His Virgin Birth, casting out demons, opening the eyes of the blind, healing chronic diseases such as leprosy, paralysis, lameness, dumbness, deafness, and illnesses that had continued for thirty-eight years and for eighteen years, which physicians had failed to cure. In brief, as St. Matthew the Evangelist said, "all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease". in "all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments."
Who can heal all kinds of sickness and has authority over nature and demons with this mightiness and in such variety, except God, the Author of nature?.

[Mary Naeem]

Pope Shenouda III



The miracles of Christ were performed by His mere order or rebuke, In healing Simon's mother-in-law from her fever, He "rebuked the fever, and it left her. And immediately she arose and served them" (Lk. 4:39). Here, the illness left by His mere rebuke.
In healing the paralytic, Christ the Lord said to him: "Arise, take up your bed, and go your way to your house" (Mk. 2:9). His mere order restored the man's health so that he rose up and even carried his bed.
In healing the man who had a withered hand, the Lord said to him: "'Stretch out your hand.' And he did so, and his hand was restored as whole as the other hand' (Lk. 6:10). The Lord performed the miracle with His mere order, healing a disease which medicine had failed to cure.