Miracles in Luke's Gospel

Gennesaret (Luke 5:1-11)



In an early encounter of Peter, James and John with Jesus, he demonstrates his miraculous ability to aid them in their own profession of fishermen. There is the famous pronouncement of Jesus at the end of the story that he will make them "fishers of men."

"Which is Easier to Say?" (Luke 5:17-26)

After a paralytic is lowered through the roof of a building by his friends so that Jesus can heal him, the observing crowd says with some understatement, "We have seen strange things today." But strangest of all is Jesus' claim to forgive the man's sins--soomething that only God can do.

Raised in Nain (Luke 7:11-17)

We tend to think that only Lazarus was raised from the dead by Jesus and often forget this story in Luke where a widow's son is resuscitated. This is, of course, only a foreshadowing of Jesus' own resurrection.

From the Lesser to the Greater (Luke 14:1-6)

In this passage of Scripture, Jesus uses the rabbinical method of reasoning called "arguing from the lesser to the greater."  When they question his wisdom in healing a man from dropsy on the Sabbath, he points out that any of them would pull an ox out of a well on the Sabbath and, presumedly, a human being is of more importance in God's sight than any animal.