What kind of miracles did Jesus perform?

Answer 1

The gospels describe many kinds of miracles performed by Jesus, including exorcism of demons, curing illness and blindness, raising he dead and feeding thousands. The first gospel to be written, and therefore perhaps the closest to the events in the life of Jesus was Mark's Gospel. The following summary, in the form of a parallel structure, around which the gospel was written, provides some good examples of the miracles Jesus performed:

A . John explains the coming of Jesus (Mark 1:1-8)

B .The baptism of Jesus (1:9)

C . The voice of God from heaven, "Thou art my beloved son" (1:11)

D . The forty days in the wilderness as an allusion to Elijah and Moses (1:13)

E . The people were astonished at what Jesus taught (1:22)

F . Jesus casts out an unclean spirit (1:23-26)

G . Pharisees took counsel with the Herodians how they might destroy Jesus (3:6)

H . Demons, whenever they see Jesus, fall down and say that he is the Son of God.

-- Jesus commands that they tell no one of this (3:11-12)

I .. Jesus calls the 12 disciples (3:13-19)

J .. Jesus rejects his own family: he has a new family, his followers (3:31-35)

K . Jesus rebukes the wind (4:36-41)

L . The demoniac, wearing no clothes (5:15), cries out that Jesus not torment him and Jesus sends out the demons (5:1-20)

M . Jesus comes into his own country (6:1)
-- Where he was brought up

N . The people misunderstand Jesus and he can do no mighty work (6:2-6)

O . Jesus sends out the disciples and curses those who will not receive them (6:7-11)
-- in sending the disciples with authority and expecting all to receive them, Jesus is asserting his own authority

P . Herod thinks that Jesus is John the Baptist risen from the dead (6:14)

Q . Herodias and her daughter conspire to kill John the Baptist (6:16-29)

R . Feeding the thousands, and related miracles and discourses (6:33-8:21)

S . Who do people say that I am (8:27)

T . Peter affirms faith in Jesus as the Christ (8:29)

U . Whosoever shall be ashamed of me: of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed (8:38)

V . The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests and scribes (8:31a)

W . Be killed and after three days rise again (8:31b)

X . Prophecy of second coming (9:1)- Jesus tells the disciples that some of them would not taste death until they saw the kingdom of God coming with power.

B' .The Transfiguration of Jesus (9:2-3)

C' .The voice of God from heaven, "This is my beloved son" (9:7)

D' . Jesus talks to Elijah and Moses then to the disciples about Elijah (9:4-13)

E' .A great multitude was amazed at Jesus (9:15)

F' .Jesus cast out a dumb spirit (9:17-27)

G' .They shall kill the Son of man and he shall rise on the third day (9:31)

H' .Jesus clarifies his divine status, saying that he is not God: "Why call me good? There is none good but God" (10:18)

I' . Peter says the disciples have left all and followed Jesus (10:28)

J' . Those who have left their family for Jesus have a new family: all Jesus' followers (10:29-30)

K'. Jesus rebukes the 'sons of thunder', James and John (10:35-45 - cf 3:17)

L' .Blind Bartimaeus cries out for mercy and casts off his clothes, then Jesus heals him (10:46-52)

M' .Jesus comes into Jerusalem (11:1-10)
-- Where he will die

N' .Jesus misunderstands the fig tree that can provide no fruit (11:13-14)

O' .Jesus casts out them that sold and bought in the Temple and curses them for making the Temple a den of thieves (11:15-17)
-- Jesus is asserting his authority

P' .Jesus asks whether the baptism of John is from heaven or of men, and the priests, scribes and elders can not answer (11:30-33)

Q' .Parable of husbandmen who conspire to kill the vineyard owner's son (12:1-9)

X' .Prophecy of second coming (chapter 13)

-- on clouds of glory, within the lifetimes of some of those to whom he was speaking

R' .The Last Supper (14:17-25)

S' .Art thou the Christ, Son of God (14:61)

T' .Peter denies Jesus three times (14:66-72a)

U' .And when he thought thereon, Peter wept (14:72b)

V' .The chief priests, elders and scribes delivered Jesus to Pontius Pilate (15:1)

-- Delivering Jesus is a similar concept to rejecting him.
-- Both parts of the pair involve chief priests, elders and scribes

W' .Jesus dies and on the third day rises again (15:37, 16:6)

A' .The young man explains the departure of Jesus(16:6-8)

I have highlighted events F and F' as examples in which Jesus cast out demons. In event K, Jesus calmed the storm after he rebuked the wind, linking this event to event K', when Jesus rebuked James and John, the 'sons of thunder'. Event L, which took place at Gadarene, is the most famous and awe-inspiring exorcism in the entire New Testament. Event L' is an otherwise unremarkable example of Jesus healing a blind man, Bartimaeus, but on close examination it bears similarities to the exorcism of Legion.
The most prominent place that uses symbolism of food is in Mark 6:33-8:21, which forms an integrated set of passages with at least ten references or allusions to food, including a summary by Jesus of the two feasts in 8:19-21. This has a consistent theme of food, with the reader understanding Jesus but the disciples not understanding:

• Jesus and the disciples had no leisure so much as to eat, so they went into a desert place
• The miracle of feeding the 5000
• Jesus walked on water and the disciples were amazed, for they considered not the miracle of the loaves
• Pharisees complain about the disciples eating with unwashed hands
• Discourse - what goes into a man goes into his belly and does not defile
• Jesus tells the Greek woman that he must first feed the children (the Jews), to which she metaphorically begs for crumbs from the table. Jesus relents and tells her that her daughter is cured.
• The miracle of feeding the 4000
• Disciples are hungry and have only one loaf of bread
• Jesus warns the disciples about the leaven of the Pharisees and they reason, "It is because we have no bread," showing they do not understand
• Summary by Jesus of the two miracle feasts, asking, "How is it that ye do not understand?"

These important references and allusions to food are linked to the Last Supper, through Mark's parallel structure as pair R.
The later gospels provide examples of Jesus performing the very same miracles attributed to the pagan gods. John describes Jesus turning water into wine, just as the god Dionysus had done. John also describes Jesus healing the lame man at a pool that is now known from Archaeology to have been a Temple to the Greek god Asclepius. The god had been unable to cure the man because whenever Asclepius came past and disturbed the water others had entered first, but Jesus had been able to do so. John also describes the miracle when Jesus raised Lazarus, brother of Mary and Martha, from the dead. This has close parallels to a parable in Luke's Gospel, wherein Lazarus was hypothetically raised from the dead - the Gospel of John is known to have been loosely based on Luke's Gospel.