Harmony of Miracles in The Four Gospels
Over the centuries Christian authors have reviewed, discussed and analyzed the miracles attributed to Jesus in the Gospels. In most cases, authors associate each miracle with specific teachings that reflect the message of Jesus. Miracles performed by Jesus are mentioned in two sections of the Quran (suras 3:49 and 5:110) in broad strokes with little detail or comment.
The exact number of miracles depends on how miracles are counted, e.g., in the Daughter of Jairus miracle a woman is cured and a child is resurrected, but the two events are narrated within the same paragraphs of the Gospels, and are usually dealt with together, and the fact that the child was 12 years old and the woman had been ill for 12 years has been the subject of various interpretations.
It is not always clear when two reported miracles refer to the same event. For example, in the Healing the Centurion's servant, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke narrate how Jesus healed the servant of a Roman Centurion in Capernaum at a distance. The Gospel of John has a similar account at Capernaum, but states that it was the son of a royal official who was cured at a distance.
Supernatural events such as the Annunciation reported in the Gospels prior to the start of the ministry of Jesus, and events following his Resurrection are generally not included in the list of miracles by Jesus, and neither is the use of "supernatural knowledge" such as in the case of the Woman at the well.
It should be noted that the Gospel of John specifically states that the miracles it recorded were but a portion of the miracles that Jesus actually performed.
A sample Gospel harmony for the miracles based on the list of key episodes in the Canonical Gospels is presented in the table below. For the sake of consistency, this table is automatically sub-selected from the main harmony table in the Gospel harmony article, based on the list of key episodes in the Canonical Gospels.
| Number | Event | Matthew | Mark | Luke | John |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marriage at Cana | John 2:1-11 | |||
| 2 | Exorcism at the Synagogue in Capernaum | Mark 1:21-28 | Luke 4:31-37 | ||
| 3 | Miraculous draught of fishes | Luke 5:1-11 | |||
| 4 | Young Man from Nain | Luke 7:11-17 | |||
| 5 | Cleansing a leper | Matthew 8:1-4 | Mark 1:40-45 | Luke 5:12-16 | |
| 6 | The Centurion's Servant | Matthew 8:5-13 | Luke 7:1-10 | John 4:46-54 | |
| 7 | Healing the mother of Peter's wife | Matthew 8:14-17 | Mark 1:29-34 | Luke 4:38-41 | |
| 8 | Exorcising at sunset | Matthew 8:16-17 | Mark 1:32-34 | Luke 4:40-41 | |
| 9 | Calming the storm | Matthew 8:23-27 | Mark 4:35-41 | Luke 8:22-25 | |
| 10 | Gerasenes demonic | Matthew 8:28-34 | Mark 5:1-20 | Luke 8:26-39 | |
| 11 | Paralytic at Capernaum | Matthew 9:1-8 | Mark 2:1-12 | Luke 5:17-26 | |
| 12 | Daughter of Jairus | Matthew 9:18-26 | Mark 5:21-43 | Luke 8:40-56 | |
| 13 | The Bleeding Woman | Matthew 9:20-22 | Mark 5:24-34 | Luke 8:43-48 | |
| 14 | Two Blind Men at Galilee | Matthew 9:27-31 | |||
| 15 | Exorcising a mute | Matthew 9:32-34 | |||
| 16 | Paralytic at Bethesda | John 5:1-18 | |||
| 17 | Man with withered Hand | Matthew 12:9-13 | Mark 3:1-6 | Luke 6:6-11 | |
| 18 | Exorcising the blind and mute man | Matthew 12:22-28 | Mark 3:20-30 | Luke 11:14-23 | |
| 19 | An Infirm Woman | Luke 13:10-17 | |||
| 20 | Feeding the 5000 | Matthew 14:13-21 | Mark 6:31-34 | Luke 9:10-17 | John 6:5-15 |
| 21 | Walking on water | Matthew 14:22-33 | Mark 6:45-52 | John 6:16-21 | |
| 22 | Healing in Gennesaret | Matthew 14:34-36 | Mark 6:53-56 | ||
| 23 | Canaanite woman's daughter | Matthew 15:21-28 | Mark 7:24-30 | ||
| 24 | Deaf mute of Decapolis | Mark 7:31-37 | |||
| 25 | Feeding the 4000 | Matthew 15:32-39 | Mark 8:1-9 | ||
| 26 | Blind Man of Bethsaida | Mark 8:22-26 | |||
| 27 | Transfiguration of Jesus | Matthew 17:1-13 | Mark 9:2-13 | Luke 9:28-36 | |
| 28 | Boy possessed by a demon | Matthew 17:14-21 | Mark 9:14-29 | Luke 9:37-49 | |
| 29 | Coin in the fish's mouth | Matthew 17:24-27 | |||
| 30 | Man with dropsy | Luke 14:1-6 | |||
| 31 | Cleansing ten lepers | Luke 17:11-19 | |||
| 32 | The Blind at Birth | John 9:1-12 | |||
| 33 | Blind near Jericho | Matthew 20:29-34 | Mark 10:46-52 | Luke 18:35-43 | |
| 34 | Raising of Lazarus | John 11:1-44 | |||
| 35 | Cursing the fig tree | Matthew 21:18-22 | Mark 11:12-14 | ||
| 36 | Healing the ear of a servant | Luke 22:49-51 | |||
| 37 | Catch of 153 fish | John 21:1-24 |
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