A Quick Look at Some Miracles of Jesus -- #5 Quiz

Answer: 1

Going strictly by Scripture, Mary Magdalene was the lone person who was miraculously healed by Jesus and was at the crucifixion site. It's possible there were others, but there is no way of knowing for certain.

When you stop and think about it, it's not surprising the people Jesus miraculously healed were not at the crucifixion as He was largely abandoned. Apart from John, no other member of the original Twelve Disciples was at the scene. Scripture indicates there were a handful of women at Calvary along with a number of other people who taunted Jesus and hurled insults at Him, saying, "If You are the Son of God, come down from the cross."

Mary Magdalene, of course, had seven demons miraculously driven out of her by Jesus, as per Mark 16:9 and Luke 8:2.

Answer: Like trees walking

When Jesus healed an unnamed blind man at Bethsaida, the man initially said he saw people "like trees walking." He made the statement after Jesus had spit on the man's eyes and put His hands on him.

Scripture goes on to tell of Jesus putting His hands on the man's eyes once again and then making him look up. Miraculously, the man's sight was completely restored and he "saw everyone clearly."

It was shortly after this incident Peter confessed Jesus was the Christ.

For details about Jesus miraculously healing the blind man, see Mark 8:22-26.

Answer: The healing took place on the Sabbath

The ruler of the synagogue was upset with Jesus because He miraculously healed
on the Sabbath a woman who was bent over and could not raise herself up, as per Luke 13:11-13. According to the passage, Jesus was in a synagogue on the Sabbath when He noticed an unnamed woman who had "a spirit of infirmity eighteen years." Moments later, the woman's life would change dramatically when Jesus proclaimed, "Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity." After Jesus laid His hands on the woman, Scriptures states "immediately she was made straight and glorified God."

The unnamed ruler of the synagogue, however, was upset. Scripture states he informed Jesus He should have healed the woman on another day of the week and not on the Sabbath.

Christ responded to the synagogue ruler stating that if "each one of you" should lose an ox or a donkey on the Sabbath they would go looking for it. Scripture states Christ then posed a question for the ruler: "So ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound -- think of it -- for eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the Sabbath?"

The passage concludes by stating, "all His adversaries were put to shame; and all the multitude rejoiced for all the glorious things that were done by Him."

Answer: The angel Gabriel

The angel Gabriel announced Christ's miraculous conception to Mary, as per Luke 1:26-38. According to the passage, Gabriel was sent by God to make the announcement to Mary who was in Nazareth. Gabriel also announced the impeding birth of John the Baptist to Zecharias, the husband of Elizabeth.

Using the NKJV, the name Gabriel is found in the New Testament in only the first chapter of Luke.

Answer: Leprosy

The man was cleansed of leprosy. Chapters 5 through 7 of Matthew are devoted to details about Christ's famous Sermon on the Mount. Chapter 8 then tells of Jesus coming down from the mountain and miraculously cleansing an unnamed leper. According to Matthew 8:3, the man was immediately healed when Jesus touched him and said, "Be cleansed."

Answer: 7

Jesus fed four thousand men with seven loaves of bread and a "few small fish," according to Matthew 15:32-39. The passage states the multitude ate and were full and afterwards the disciples collected seven baskets of food leftover.

While the figure states four thousand men were fed, it is believed the number fed by Jesus was possibly three times larger. Census figures and the like did not include women and children in Biblical times and many scholars believe as many as twelve thousand people were fed with the seven loaves and a "few small fish."

Answer: He touched their eyes

Two blind men were miraculously healed by Jesus when He simply touched their eyes. Scripture states the two unnamed men "immediately" received their sight and they followed Him. According to Matthew 20:30-34, the miracle took place at Jericho with a "great multitude" looking on.

Answer: He was epileptic

The boy who threw himself into the fire before Jesus healed him was epileptic, according to the NKJV. (The NIV simply says the boy had "seizures and suffered greatly.")

Matthew 17:14-18 tells of the boy's father kneeling before Jesus, imploring Him to cure his son. The man had previously taken the boy to the Twelve Disciples of Jesus, but they were unable to cure the lad.

Scripture goes on to tell of Jesus rebuking "the demon and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour."

The passage concludes with Jesus informing the disciples they were unable to cure the boy because of their unbelief.

Answer: True

True. Jesus performed little in the way of miracles in the area surrounding Nazareth because of the "unbelief" of the people. (Rather than unbelief, the NIV uses the term "lack of faith.".)

For details, see Matthew 13:53-58. The passage contains Christ's famous statement: "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house."

Answer: There is no way of knowing the exact number.

Regardless of how carefully and thoroughly one reads the four Gospels, there is no way of knowing how many miracles Jesus actually performed. There are more than thirty-five miracles clearly documented in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but the consensus is the number is massively larger.

There are passages which tell of Jesus healing a multitude of people but no exact details are given. For example, Mark 6:53-56, tells of a large unspecified number of people touching Jesus and being made well. Verse 56 in the passage states, "as many as touched Him were made well." In other words, there could've been hundreds of people miraculously healed in these three verses alone.

John 21:25 sums up things this way in the NKJV: "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."