Healing and miracles were an important part of the ministry of Jesus. Jesus spent a lot of time traveling by foot from town to town, finding people who were sick, afflicted and oppressed from a wide variety of causes and healing them. Not only was each healing an act of compassion and a foreshadowing of the greater healing to come, each miracle was testimony from God that Jesus is the Christ.
Every time Jesus heals someone it reminds us that he has the power to rescue us from death. A physically sick person or a demon-possessed comes to Jesus and is made well. That is tangible, visible evidence that a spiritually sick person who comes to Jesus will also be made well.
Chart of the Miracles of Jesus
| Miracle | Matthew | Mark | Luke | John |
| Casting out an unclean Spirit | . | Mk 1:21-28 | Lk 4:31-37 | . |
| Turning water into wine | . | . | . | Jn 2:1-12 |
| Healing noble’s son of fever | . | . | . | Jn 4:46-54 |
| Catch of fish | . | . | Lk 5:1-11 | . |
| Cleansing a leper | Mt 8:2-4 | Mk 1:40-43 | Lk 5:12-14 | . |
| Healing a Centurion’s servant of paralysis | Mt 8:5-13 | . | Lk 7:1-10 | . |
| Healing Peter’s mother-in-law | Mt 8:14-15 | Mk 1:30-31 | Lk 4:38-39 | . |
| Healing sick at evening | Mt 8:16 | Mk 1:32 | Lk 4:40 | . |
| Stilling the storm | Mt 8:23-27 | Mk 4:35-41 | Lk 8:22-25 | . |
| Raising the widow’s son at Nain | . | . | Lk 7:11-15 | . |
| Demons entering the swine | Mt 8:28-24 | Mk 5:1-20 | Lk 8:26-39 | . |
| Healing a paralytic | Mt 9:2 | Mk 2:3-5 | Lk 5:17-25 | . |
| Raising the ruler’s daughter | Mt 9:23-26 | Mk 5:35-43 | Lk 8:49-56 | . |
| Healing the hemorrhaging woman | Mt 9:20-23 | Mk 5:25-34 | Lk 8:43-48 | . |
| Healing 2 blind men | Mt 9:27-31 | . | . | . |
| Healing demon possessed, mute man | Mt 9:32-24 | . | . | . |
| Healing a man’s withered hand | Mt 12:9-13 | Mk 3:1-6 | Lk 6:6-11 | . |
| Healing a blind mute man | Mt 12:22 | . | . | . |
| Healing an infirm man at Bethesda | . | . | . | Jn 5:1-9 |
| Feeding the 5000 | Mt 14:13-21 | Mk 6:30-44 | Lk 9:10-17 | Jn 6:1 |
| Walking on the sea | Mt 14:22-33 | Mk 6:45-52 | . | Jn 6:19 |
| Healing sick at Gennesaret | Mt 14:34-36 | . | . | . |
| Healing the Canaaanite woman’s daughter | Mt 15:21-28 | Mk 7:24-30 | . | . |
| Healing a deaf mute | . | Mk 7:31-37 | . | . |
| Feeding the 4000 | Mt 15:32-39 | Mk 8:1-10 | . | . |
| Healing the blind man at Bethsaida | . | Mk 8:22-26 | . | . |
| Healing the demon-possessed boy | Mt 17:14-20 | Mk 9:14-29 | Lk 9:38-42 | . |
| Temple tax in the fish’s mouth | Mt 17:24-27 | . | . | . |
| Healing the infirm bent woman | . | . | Lk 13:10-17 | . |
| Healing the man with dropsy | . | . | Lk 14:1-6 | . |
| Cleansing 10 lepers | . | . | Lk 17:11-19 | . |
| Healing blind men (Bartimaeus) | Mt 20:29-34 | Mk 10:46-52 | Lk 18:35-43 | . |
| Withering the fig tree | Mt 21:18-22 | Mk 11:12-14 | . | . |
| Restoring the servant’s ear | . | . | Lk 22:47-53 | . |
| Healing man born blind | . | . | . | Jn 9:1-13 |
| Raising of Lazarus | . | . | . | Jn 11:38-44 |
| Second catch of Fish | . | . | . | Jn 21:1-6 |
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