Jesus healed the sick, gave sight to the blind, and even brought the dead back to life. More importantly, He made these miracles possible.
While He was on the earth, Jesus taught the way to be happy, find peace, and return to live with God. His gospel still applies today.
If you ask Google more than 68 million results would suggest that Jesus performed 37 miracles that were recorded in the four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John), with Mark's Gospel recording the most. It may seem a little surprising that the Bible records only 37 of these innumerable miracles.
Gospel account
The episode is described in Luke 2:41–52. Jesus, at the age of twelve, accompanies Mary and Joseph, and a large group of their relatives and friends to Jerusalem on pilgrimage, "according to the custom" – that is, Passover.
Ancient texts reveal that Jesus spent 17 years in the Orient. They say that from age 13 to age 29, Jesus traveled to India, Nepal, Ladakh and Tibet as both student and teacher.
Christians have generally taken the statement in Mark 6:3 referring to Jesus as "Is not this the carpenter...?" (Greek: οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ τέκτων, romanized: ouch outos estin ho tektōn) as an indication that before the age of 30 Jesus had been working as a carpenter.
The miracles of Jesus are miraculous deeds attributed to Jesus in Christian and Islamic texts. The majority are faith healings, exorcisms, resurrections, and control over nature.
In John 5:19 Jesus declared that He could do nothing by Himself, but only through God the Father. Jesus walked on water because of His faith in God. Likewise, Peter walked toward Jesus in faith before he stumbled.
The Feeding of the 5,000 is also known as the "miracle of the five loaves and two fish"; the Gospel of John reports that Jesus used five loaves and two fish supplied by a boy to feed a multitude.
Anyone who is familiar with the New Testament will tell you about Jesus' profession as a carpenter. The idea of a young Jesus, carving and shaping wood as he would one day reshape lives, is extremely prevalent throughout Christianity.
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.” And then Jesus adds, “And, the second is like unto it ”You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” This one thing Jesus says is the most important: loving God and loving your neighbor.
He was born of a Jewish mother, in Galilee, a Jewish part of the world. All of his friends, associates, colleagues, disciples, all of them were Jews. He regularly worshipped in Jewish communal worship, what we call synagogues. He preached from Jewish text, from the Bible.
What Fish Did Jesus Likely Eat? Based on tilapia and carp bones found at Sea of Galilee excavation sites, archaeologists believe that tilapia and carp would have populated the Sea of Galilee during Jesus' lifetime. So it is likely that the fish eaten by Jesus was tilapia from the Sea of Galilee.
The transformation of water into wine at the wedding at Cana (also called the marriage at Cana, wedding feast at Cana or marriage feast at Cana) is the first miracle attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John.
The Gospel of Luke (Luke 3:23) states that Jesus was "about 30 years of age" at the start of his ministry.
Jesus answered, “I tell you, Peter, before the rooster crows today, you will deny three times that you know me.” John 13:31–38.
Pope Leo the Great, reflecting on this same passage, is thought to have said: "In his humanity Jesus wept for Lazarus; in his divinity he raised him from the dead." Jesus felt deeply the pain of Lazarus' death.
Aramaic is best known as the language Jesus spoke. It is a Semitic language originating in the middle Euphrates. In 800-600 BC it spread from there to Syria and Mesopotamia. The oldest preserved inscriptions are from this period and written in Old Aramaic.
Jesus' name in Hebrew was “Yeshua” which translates to English as Joshua.
In the New Testament, Jesus is referred to as the King of the Jews, both at the beginning of his life and at the end. In the Koine Greek of the New Testament, e.g., in John 19:3, this is written as Basileus ton Ioudaion (βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἰουδαίων).
He may have stood about 5-ft.-5-in. (166 cm) tall, the average man's height at the time.
Considering Jesus' varying chronology, he was 33 to 40 years old at his time of death.
Among the early Judeo-Christian Gnostics the Ebionites held that John the Baptist, James the Just and Jesus were vegetarians. Some religious orders of various Christian Churches practice pescatarianism, including the Benedictines, Franciscans, Trappists, Carthusians and Cistercians.