Showing posts with label New Testament. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Testament. Show all posts

8/13/11

How Was The New Testament Put Together?


Dr. Erwin Lutzer explains how the Canon (New Testament) was put together and how Paul's letters were already considered inspired, and included when they were written.

http://erwinlutzer.com/

7/24/11

Miracles in the New Testament of the Bible

Miracles of Jesus

Recorded in one Gospel only:

Matthew
Two blind men cured (Matthew 9:27-31)
The mute demoniac healed (Matthew 9:32-33)
The coin in the mouth of the fish (Matthew 17:24-27)

Mark
A deaf and mute man healed (Mark 7:31-37)
A blind man cured (Mark 8:22-26)

Luke
Jesus passes unseen through the multitude (Luke 4:28-30)
The great catch of fish (Luke 5:1-11)
The widow's son is raised from the dead (Luke 7:11-15)
A woman freed from her infirmity (Luke 13:11-13)
A man with dropsy cured (Luke 14:1-4)
Ten lepers cleansed (Luke 17:11-19)
Servant's ear healed (Malchus) (Luke 22:50-51)

John
Water changed to wine at Cana (John 2:1-11)
Official's son healed of fever (John 4:46-54)
Invalid man cured at Jerusalem (John 5:1-9)
Jesus passes through the crowd in the temple (John 8:59)
Man born blind cure at Jerusalem (John 9:1-7)
Lazarus raised from the dead (John 11:38-44)
Falling to the ground of soldiers (John 18:5-6)
The catch of 153 fish (John 21:1-14)

Recorded in two Gospels:

Centurion's paralyzed servant cured (Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 7:1-10)
The blind and mute demoniac healed (Matthew 12:22, Luke 11:14)
Daughter of the Syrophoenician woman healed (Matthew 14:21-28, Mark 7:24-30)
The four thousand fed (Matthew 15:32-38, Mark 8:1-9)
The fig tree cursed by Jesus (Matthew 21:19, Mark 11:14)
A demoniac in the synagogue cured (Mark 1:23-26, Luke 4:33-35)

Recorded in three Gospels:

The leper cured (Matthew 8:2-3, Mark 1:40-41, Luke 5:12-13)
Peter's mother-in-law cured of a fever (Matthew 8:14-15, Mark 1:30-31, Luke 4:38-39)
The storm at sea stilled (Matthew 8:23-26, Mark 4:35-39, Luke 8:22-24)
The demons entered into swine (Matthew 8:28-32, Mark 5:1-13, Luke 8:26-33)
The paralytic cured (Matthew 9:2-7, Mark 2:3-12, Luke 5:18-25)
Jairus' daughter raises to life (Matthew 9:18-26, Mark 5:22-42, Luke 8:41-56)
A woman's hemorrhage cured (Matthew 9:20-22, Mark 5:25-29, Luke 8:43-48)
A man's withered hand cured (Matthew 12:10-13, Mark 3:1-5, Luke 6:6-11)
Jesus walks on the sea (Matthew 14:25-27, Mark 6:48-51, John 6:19-20)
The epileptic boy cured (Matthew 17:14-18, Mark 9:17-27, Luke 9:37-42)
A blind man cured (Matthew 20:30-34j, Mark 10:46-52, Luke 18:35-43)

Recorded in all four Gospels:
Feeding the five thousand (Matthew 14:15-21, Mark 6:35-44, Luke 9:10-17, John 6:1-14)

Miracles Recorded in the Acts of the Apostles aka the Book of Acts:

The disciples are filled with the Holy Spirit, with the accompanying signs (2:1-47)
The gift of tongues (2:4-11, 10:44-48)
Lame man at the Beautiful Gate of the temple (3:1-26)
Death of Ananias and Sapphira (5:1-11)
Peter healing the sick in the streets (5:12-16)
Prison doors opened for the apostles by an angel (5:17-21)
Stephen's vision of Christ at the right hand of God (7:55-56)
Philip casts out unclean spirits (8:6-7)
Christ appears to Saul (aka "Paul") on the way to Damascus (9:1-9, 22:6-11, 26:12-18)
Saul's (aka "Paul") blindness healed by Ananias (9:17-19, 22:12-13)
Aeneas' paralysis healed by Peter (9:33-34)
Tabitha (Dorcas) raised to life by Peter (9:36-41)
Vision of Cornelius (10:3-6,30-32)
Vision of Peter (10:10-16, 11:5-10)
Prophecies of Agabus (11:27-38, 21:10-11)
Peter's release from prison (12:6-10)
Elymas blinded by Paul (13:9-11)
Healing of the crippled man at Lystra by Paul (14:8-10)
Paul's vision of a man of Macedonia (16:9)
Paul casts out spirit of divination from slave girl (16:16-18)
Earthquake at Philippi (16:25-26)
Extraordinary miracles done by Paul at Ephesus (19:11-12)
Evil spirit puts Sceva's sons to flight (19:13-16)
Paul raises Eutychus to life (20:9-12)
Appearances of Christ to Paul (22:17-21, 23:11, 27:23-24)
Paul unharmed by a viper's (poisonous snake) bite (28:3-6)
Paul heals Publius' father and others at Malta (28:8-9)

Miracles Referred to in the Epistles and Revelation:

Miracles by Paul and others (Romans 15:18-19; 1 Corinthians 12:8-10, 28-31; 14:18; Galatians 3:5; 1 Timothy 1:20)
Miracle of tongues (1 Corinthians 14:27-33)
Appearances of Christ after His resurrection (1 Corinthians 15:3-8)
Visions and revelations of Paul (2 Corinthians 12:1-4, 12)
Powers of the age to come (Hebrews 2:4, 6:5)
The visions of John at Patmos (Revelation 1:10-11, 4:1-22:21)


Footnotes:
Graded Press, ed. "Miracles..." Holy Bible: New Revised Standard Version. Nashville; Burlingame: Thomas Nelson for Cokesbury, 1990. Print.

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