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The proper Christian answer, based on biblical interpretation, is that Jesus is so powerful because he is the son of God. Being divine, everything is within his power.

A closer look at The Bible offers alternative explanations. First of all, it seems that perhaps Jesus was not always powerful. In Mark 6:2-6, the people misunderstand Jesus and he can do no mighty work, suggesting that without faith, Jesus is not at all powerful. Moreover, it appears he is not all-good. In Mark 10:18, Jesus clarifies this, saying that because he is not God, he is not 'good' : "Why call me good? There is none good but God."

Mark's Gospel also portrays Jesus as fully human, adopted by God at the time of his baptism. True, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke portray him as the son of God from the time of his conception, but the authors of these gospels were substantially reliant on Mark's Gospel for everything they knew about the mission of Jesus, so it is hard to imagine how they would have known these intimate details, occurring almost a hundred years before these gospels were written. John's Gospel does say that Jesus was both divine and pre-existing, but again this gospel was in the main derivative and it takes great faith to believe that its author was right but the three other gospel authors were wrong.

I believe Jesus was powerful because of the message he taught and the faith he inspired. His message was no doubt elaborated and added to by the gospel authors and their predecessors, thus making the message even more powerful than what Jesus might have taught. But it is the power of his message, as transmitted through the gospels that made Jesus powerful.

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