Fill in your answers in the spaces provided below. A.
Type of miracle
Healing miracle Exorcism
(i.e. casting out demons) Nature miracle
Restoration to life B. Example
4. Tick the box! In each of the following, say whether it is true or false.
True
1. Some thirty-five miracle stories are recorded in the Gospels. 2. Jesus performed five different types of miracle.
3. Jesus worked miracles to show that the Kingdom of God had begun in him.
4. The story of how Jesus healed a Roman centurion’s servant is an example of a nature miracle.
5. The story of how Jesus walked on water is an example of a healing miracle.
6. The story of how Jesus fed 5,000 people by multiplying five loaves and two fishes is an example of a nature miracle.
7. The story of how Jesus raised his friend Lazarus from the dead is an example of a restoration-to-life miracle.
8. Christianity is founded on the miracle of Jesus’s resurrection. 9. Leprosy is known today as Parkinson’s disease. 10. The Jews dreaded leprosy. Lepers were treated as social outcasts.
11. Jesus shocked his fellow Jews by touching the man afflicted with leprosy.
12. The man afflicted by leprosy was cured instantly and all traces of the disease were removed from his body.
13. The Pharisees accepted that Jesus had the power to forgive sins. 14. The Pharisees accused Jesus of blasphemy.
15. For a first-century Jew, illness or disability was taken as proof that God had rejected you and was punishing you for your sins.
16. The Jews would only believe that the paralysed man’s sins had been forgiven if they saw that his paralysis had been cured and that he had been restored to full health and mobility.
