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The term "miraculous" refers to events or actions that are extraordinary and beyond human capability, often attributed to divine intervention. In the Bible, miracles serve as signs of God's power and presence, affirming His sovereignty and authority over creation. They are pivotal in demonstrating the divine nature of Jesus Christ and the authenticity of His message.

Old Testament Miracles

In the Old Testament, miracles are frequently associated with God's deliverance and provision for His people. One of the earliest recorded miracles is the parting of the Red Sea, where God enabled the Israelites to escape from the pursuing Egyptian army (Exodus 14:21-22). This event is a profound demonstration of God's power and His commitment to His covenant people.

Another significant miracle is the provision of manna in the wilderness, where God supplied the Israelites with daily bread from heaven during their 40-year journey in the desert (Exodus 16:14-15). This miracle underscores God's ability to provide for His people in seemingly impossible circumstances.

The miracles performed by the prophets, such as Elijah and Elisha, further illustrate God's intervention in the natural world. Elijah's confrontation with the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel, where God sent fire from heaven to consume the sacrifice, is a powerful testament to God's supremacy over false gods (1 Kings 18:38-39).

New Testament Miracles

In the New Testament, the miracles of Jesus Christ are central to His ministry and message. They reveal His divine nature and authority, confirming His identity as the Son of God. Jesus' miracles include healing the sick, raising the dead, and controlling nature.

One of the most well-known miracles is the feeding of the five thousand, where Jesus multiplied five loaves and two fish to feed a large crowd (Matthew 14:19-21). This miracle not only demonstrates Jesus' compassion but also His power to provide abundantly.

The raising of Lazarus from the dead is another profound miracle that highlights Jesus' authority over life and death (John 11:43-44). This event foreshadows Jesus' own resurrection and serves as a powerful sign of His victory over death.

The miracles performed by the apostles in the Book of Acts continue the demonstration of divine power in the early church. The healing of the lame man by Peter and John at the temple gate is one such example, illustrating the continued work of the Holy Spirit through the apostles (Acts 3:6-8).

Purpose and Significance

Miracles in the Bible serve multiple purposes. They authenticate the message and messengers of God, provide for the needs of His people, and reveal His character and power. They are signs that point to the greater reality of God's kingdom and His redemptive plan for humanity.

The miraculous acts recorded in Scripture invite believers to trust in God's power and faithfulness, encouraging them to live in expectation of His continued work in the world. As Hebrews 2:4 states, "God also testified to it by signs, wonders, and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to His will."

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (a.) Of the nature Of a miracle; performed by supernatural power; effected by the direct agency Of almighty power, and not by natural causes.

2. (a.) Supernatural; wonderful.

3. (a.) Wonder-working.

Greek

1411. dunamis -- (miraculous) power, might, strength
... 1410, 1411. dunamis. 1412 . (miraculous) power, might, strength. Part of Speech:
Noun, Feminine Transliteration: dunamis Phonetic Spelling: (doo'-nam-is ...
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5486. charisma -- a gift of grace, a free gift
... from danger or passion); (specially), a (spiritual) endowment, ie (subjectively)
religious qualification, or (objectively) miraculous faculty -- (free) gift. ...
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5059. teras -- a wonder, marvel
... 5059 -- a miraculous , done to elicit; an extraordinary event with its supernatural
left on all witnessing it, ie a from heaven to earth. Word Origin a prim. ...
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2308. thelesis -- will
... Cognate: 2308 (a feminine noun derived from 2309 , "desire, wish") -- a desire or
wish; a brand of God's preference "fleshed out" in a miraculous way in His ...
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652. apostolos -- a messenger, one sent on a mission, an apostle
... From apostello; a delegate; specially, an ambassador of the Gospel; officially a
commissioner of Christ ("apostle") (with miraculous powers) -- apostle ...
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4592. semeion -- a sign
... indication, mark, token. 4592 -- a sign (typically miraculous), given especially
to confirm, corroborate or authenticate. 4592 ("sign ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5875. En Haqqore -- "spring of the one calling," location of a ...
... "spring of the one calling," location of a miraculous spring. Transliteration: En
Haqqore Phonetic Spelling: (ane-hak-ko-ray') Short Definition: En-hakkore. ...
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5950. aliliyyah -- a deed
... Word Origin from alal Definition a deed NASB Word Usage deed (1). miraculous work.
For aliylah; (miraculous) execution -- work. see HEBREW aliylah. 5949, 5950 ...
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Library

The Miraculous Feeding of the Five Thousand
... TRANSFIGURATION. CHAPTER XXIX. THE MIRACULOUS FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND.
(Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-14) ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xxix the miraculous feeding.htm

The Miraculous Events that Accompanied the Birth of Christ.
... CHAPTER III. THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. Section 14. The Miraculous Events that
accompanied the Birth of Christ. The Divine purpose in ...
/.../section 14 the miraculous events.htm

Mythical view of the Miraculous Conception. --No Trace of it in ...
... CHAPTER II. THE MIRACULOUS CONCEPTION. Section 10. Mythical View of the
Miraculous Conception."No trace of it in the Narrative ...
/.../section 10 mythical view of.htm

Return of the Apostles. --Miraculous Feeding of the Five Thousand. ...
... CHAPTER IX. SECOND COURSE OF EXTENDED LABOURS IN GALILEE. Section 176. Return
of the Apostles."Miraculous Feeding of the Five Thousand. ...
/.../section 176 return of the.htm

The Miraculous Conception Demanded ?? Priori, and Confirmed ??
... CHAPTER II. THE MIRACULOUS CONCEPTION. Section 9. The Miraculous Conception
demanded ?� priori, and confirmed ?�. posteriori. IF, then ...
/.../section 9 the miraculous conception.htm

The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. --Effect of the Miracle On
... CHAPTER II. COMMENCEMENT OF CHRIST'S PUBLIC TEACHING. Section 114. The
Miraculous Draught of Fishes."Effect of the Miracle on. Peter. ...
/.../section 114 the miraculous draught.htm

Miraculous are the Effects of Divine Wisdom
... THE FIRST CENTURY 74 Miraculous are the effects of Divine Wisdom. Miraculous
are the effects of Divine Wisdom. He loveth every one ...
/.../traherne/centuries of meditations/74 miraculous are the effects.htm

Now, that Miraculous Appearances have Sometimes Been Witnessed by ...
... Chapter LVII. Now, that miraculous appearances have sometimes been witnessed
by human beings? Now, that miraculous appearances ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter lvii now that miraculous.htm

Synopsis. --The Gradual Narrowing of the Miraculous Element in the ...
... I SYNOPSIS."The gradual narrowing of the miraculous element in the Bible by recent
discovery and discussion."The alarm thereby excited in the Church."The ...
/.../miracles and supernatural religion/i synopsis the gradual narrowing of.htm

Whether the Justification of the Ungodly is a Miraculous Work?
... OF THE EFFECTS OF GRACE (TEN ARTICLES) Whether the justification of the ungodly
is a miraculous work? ... For miraculous works are greater than non-miraculous. ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether the justification of the 4.htm

Thesaurus

Miraculous (54 Occurrences)
... causes. 2. (a.) Supernatural; wonderful. 3. (a.) Wonder-working. Multi-Version
Concordance Miraculous (54 Occurrences). Matthew 12 ...
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Powers (43 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 12:10 to another the exercise of miraculous powers; to another the
gift of prophecy; to another the power of discriminating between prophetic ...
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Immaculate
... From the earliest time when the idea of Mary's miraculous freedom from sin appears,
up to the Old Catholic agreement of 1874, devout and faithful Roman ...
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Prayers (99 Occurrences)
... supernatural and the natural. Here perhaps lies an explanation of the
true significance of the miraculous. The communion of the ...
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Conception (6 Occurrences)
... From the earliest time when the idea of Mary's miraculous freedom from sin appears,
up to the Old Catholic agreement of 1874, devout and faithful Roman ...
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Ebionites
... The first says (Contra Celsum, v.61) that there are two classes of Ebionites, one
of which denies the miraculous conception and birth of our Lord, the other of ...
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Ebionism
... The first says (Contra Celsum, v.61) that there are two classes of Ebionites, one
of which denies the miraculous conception and birth of our Lord, the other of ...
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Plagues (28 Occurrences)
...MIRACULOUS USE OF THE PHENOMENA 1. Intensification 2. Prediction 3. Discrimination
4. Orderliness and Increasing Severity 5. Arrangement to Accomplish Divine ...
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Varieties (5 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 12:10 to another the exercise of miraculous powers; to another the
gift of prophecy; to another the power of discriminating between prophetic ...
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Virgin (62 Occurrences)
... "Supernatural or miraculous birth" will not do, because there is no intimation
that the process of birth was in any way exceptional. ...
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Resources

Are the miraculous gifts of the Spirit for today? | GotQuestions.org

What is continuationism? What is a continuationist? | GotQuestions.org

What is demythologization? Does the Bible need to be demythologized? | GotQuestions.org

Miraculous: Dictionary and Thesaurus | Clyx.com

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Miraculous (54 Occurrences)

Matthew 12:38
Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from you."
(See NIV)

Matthew 12:39
But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
(See NIV)

Matthew 13:54
Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?
(See NAS NIV)

Matthew 14:2
and he said to his courtiers, "This is John the Baptist: he has come back to life--and that is why these miraculous Powers are working in him."
(WEY NAS NIV)

Matthew 16:4
An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah." He left them, and departed.
(See NIV)

Mark 6:14
King Herod heard this, for his name had become known, and he said, "John the Baptizer has risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him."
(See NAS NIV)

Mark 8:12
He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation."
(See NIV)

Luke 11:29
When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.
(See NIV)

John 2:18
The Jews therefore answered him, "What sign do you show us, seeing that you do these things?"
(See NIV)

John 2:23
Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name, observing his signs which he did.
(See NIV)

John 3:2
The same came to him by night, and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him."
(See NIV)

John 4:48
Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."
(See NIV)

John 6:2
A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick.
(See NIV)

John 6:26
Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.
(See NIV)

John 7:31
But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"
(See NIV)

John 9:16
Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them.
(See NIV)

John 10:41
Many came to him. They said, "John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true."
(See NIV)

John 11:47
The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, "What are we doing? For this man does many signs.
(See NIV)

Acts 2:43
Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
(See NIV)

Acts 4:30
while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus."
(See NIV)

Acts 5:12
By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
(See NIV)

Acts 6:8
Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.
(See NIV)

Acts 7:36
This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
(See NIV)

Acts 8:6
The multitudes listened with one accord to the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard and saw the signs which he did.
(See NIV)

Acts 14:3
Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who testified to the word of his grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
(See NIV)

Acts 15:12
All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
(See NIV)

1 Corinthians 1:22
Seeing that Jews demand miracles, and Greeks go in search of wisdom,
(See NIV)

1 Corinthians 12:10
to another the exercise of miraculous powers; to another the gift of prophecy; to another the power of discriminating between prophetic utterances; to another varieties of the gift of 'tongues;' to another the interpretation of tongues.
(WEY NIV)

1 Corinthians 12:28
And by God's appointment there are in the Church--first Apostles, secondly Prophets, thirdly teachers. Then come miraculous powers, and then ability to cure diseases or render loving service, or powers of organization, or varieties of the gift of 'tongues.'
(WEY DBY)

1 Corinthians 12:29
Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all in possession of miraculous powers?
(DBY)

1 Corinthians 12:30
Have all miraculous powers? Have all ability to cure diseases? Do all speak in 'tongues'? Do all interpret?
(WEY)

Revelation 13:13
He also works great miracles, so as even to make fire come down from Heaven to earth in the presence of human beings.
(See NIV)

Revelation 16:14
for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go forth to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.
(See NIV)

Revelation 19:20
who had done the miracles in his presence with which he had led astray those who had received the mark of the Wild Beast, and those who worshipped his statue. Both of them were thrown alive into the Lake of fire that was all ablaze with sulphur.
(See NIV)

Exodus 4:8
"It will happen, if they will neither believe you nor listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
(See NIV)

Exodus 4:17
You shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs."
(See NIV)

Exodus 4:28
Moses told Aaron all the words of Yahweh with which he had sent him, and all the signs with which he had instructed him.
(See NIV)

Exodus 7:3
I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
(See NIV)

Exodus 8:23
I will put a division between my people and your people: by tomorrow shall this sign be."'"
(See NIV)

Exodus 10:1
Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his servants, that I may show these my signs in the midst of them,
(See NIV)

Numbers 14:11
Yahweh said to Moses, "How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
(See NIV)

Numbers 14:22
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 4:34
Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 7:19
the great trials which your eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, by which Yahweh your God brought you out: so shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 13:1
If there arise in the midst of you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and he give you a sign or a wonder,
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 26:8
and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terror, and with signs, and with wonders;
(See NIV)

Deuteronomy 29:3
The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 32:24
In those days Hezekiah was sick even to death: and he prayed to Yahweh; and he spoke to him, and gave him a sign.
(See NIV)

2 Chronicles 32:31
However in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
(See NIV)

Psalms 74:9
We see no miraculous signs. There is no longer any prophet, neither is there among us anyone who knows how long.
(WEB NIV)

Psalms 78:43
how he set his signs in Egypt, his wonders in the field of Zoan,
(See NIV)

Psalms 105:27
They performed miracles among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 32:20
who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day, both in Israel and among other men; and made yourself a name, as in this day;
(See NIV)

Daniel 4:2
It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Miraculous

Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Spirit of Different Kinds

Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Spirit were not to Be: Despised

Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Spirit were not to Be: Neglected

Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Spirit were not to Be: Purchased

Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Spirit were to be Sought After

Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Christ Was Endued With

Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Communicated by the Laying on of the Apostles' Hands

Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Communicated for the Confirmation of the Gospel

Miraculous Gifts of the Holy Spirit: Communicated for the Edification of the Church