The miracles of Jesus were only slightly less of an intellectual challenge to citizens of the 1st century than they are to us. Raising a dead girl to life, for example, was no more common in ancient Israel than it is now! And thus it was Jesus's ability to perform such "signs and wonders" that first drew large crowds to seek him (they came to see something few could believe or to seek his help in the most desperate cases).
Yet the main point of Jesus's miracles was not to demonstrate power ...
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