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Miracles

Throughout the Bible, God is made manifest in signs and wonders, and one of the central ways in which the divine nature of Jesus is displayed in the New Testament is in his miracles. Such signs have often been read as reminders that the created world is itself a miracle—sustained in being, with all its processes and laws, by the grace of God. Miracles are also proclamations that the world is being transformed in ways that exceed our more narrow expectations. And they are indications of the identity of the divinity whose power is at work in these transformations.

Jesus and Peter on the Water by Paula Jordan
Christ Walking on the Water (Calling of Saint Peter) by Philipp Otto Runge
The Drowning Dog by Francisco de Goya

Matthew 14:22–33; Mark 6:45–52; John 6:16–21 Walking on the Water

Photoceramic portrait of Pietro Testi by Unknown artist [Fratelli Bucciolini Company]
Epitaph of the Lewe family with the resurrection of the youth at Naim (Epitaph der Familie Lewe mit der Erweckung des Jünglings zu Naim) by Veit Thiem
Archival photograph of Palma il Vecchio's Jesus and the Widow of Nain by Carlo Naya

Luke 7:11–17 The Widow of Nain

The Imprisonment of a Son of the Royal Officer, plate 37 from P. Jeronimo Nadal, Evangelicae Historiea Imagines, by Anton Wierix II, after Bernardino Passeri
Study for "Jesus em Cafarnaum", by Rodolpho Amoêdo
Jesus Heals the Nobleman's Son in Capernaum, from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

John 4:43–54 Jesus Heals an Official’s Son

Christ at the Pool of Bethesda by William Hogarth
Drawing from the Bethesda series (Pool) by Trevor Nickolls
Bethesda Fountain, Central Park, New York by Emma Stebbins

John 5:1–18 The Pool of Bethesda

Saint Peter Healing the Lame Man by Cimabue
Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man by Nicolas Poussin
Peter and John Healing the Lame Man by Masolino and Masaccio

Acts of the Apostles 3 At the Beautiful Gate

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General Resurrection from the Bamberg-Eichstätt Psalter by unknown German artist
Sarcophagus of Theodore by Unknown Italian artist
The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer

1 Corinthians 15:35–58 Bodily Resurrection

Yellow Crucifixion by Marc Chagall
Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way (Domine, Quo Vadis?) by Annibale Carracci
The Last Judgement by The Last Judgement

1 Peter 4:12–19 Finding Meaning in Suffering

The War in Heaven (pane 7g), part of The Great East Window of York Minster
Saint Michael and the Devil by Unknown Spanish Artist
The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Revelation 12:7–12 War in Heaven

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