BI-113 Synoptic Gospels Week 5

MIRACLES IN THE GOSPELS

Healing 48x

Nature 17x

Provision 8x

Judgement 2x

Affliction 1x

Communication 4x

Communication 4x

Resurrection 5x

EXORCISM IN THE NT

26X In NT (19x by Jesus)

23X in Synoptic Gospels

None in John

3x in Acts

Jesus cast out demons in 10 different instances (plus several “general” deliverances)

Epileptic son

Th

Blind and Mute demoniac

Canaanite daughter

Demoniac in Capernaum

Demoniac possessed by Legion

Evil Spirit in Capernaum

People

Demoniac’s in the Gadarenes

Mary (Magdalene)

Mute Man

POSSIBLE SIGNS OF A DEMONIAC

Definition: resembling or characteristic of demons or evil spirits

Mute

Epilepsy

blasphemy

THINGS TO LOOK FOR WHEN UNDERSTANDING MIRACLES

THINGS TO LOOK FOR WHEN UNDERSTANDING MIRACLES

Matthew 6:6 NASB95

“But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

Week 5

a. What place or location?

b. What time? (day, hour, season)

c. Who was the miracle for? (background of individual)

d. What type of miracle was it? (background - why was miracle needed)

e. How did Jesus (or other) respond to the need?

f. What was the method of miracle? (Did He do it differently another time and why)

g. What was the specific purpose of the miracle?

H. Cleansing of a leper followed by much publicity (; ; Luke 5:12-16)

Leprosy (Hansen’s disease) is one of the most terrible diseases of all time.

Leprosy (Hansen’s disease) is one of the most terrible diseases of all time.

First a patch of skin becomes discolored and numb, usually somewhere on the face. From there the path may spread and grow into thick, glossy tumor-like welts. Next the disease advances to the hands and feet. The fingers and toes commonly shrink and lose their usefulness. As the external tumors grow, they leak and discharge a very unpleasant odor. Finally, the disease will work internally, affecting the larynx. Slowly, inch-by-inch, the victim dies over a span of ten to twenty years

THE SITUATION OF THE LEPER

Would be quarantined ()

Would be ceremonially unclean, and therefore unfit to worship n the house of God (, , ,)

Everyone had to avoid him ()

Had to cry “unclean” whenever someone approached him ()

Leprosy is a type of sin - No cure without God

THE PLEA OF THE LEPER

The Leper came to Jesus (desire)

The leper knelt (humbled)

The leper asked “You can make me clean” (faith)

JESUS RESPONSE TO THE LEPER

He had compassion

He touched him

He was willing - “Be cleansed”

He told him to show himself to the priest as a testimony to them ()

THE RESULTS (Positive)

Immediately he was healed

News about Jesus spread

Others were healed

THE RESULTS (Negative - due to the former leper not obeying Jesus)

Priest were not testified to

Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city

The proper course would have been for the priests to verify the cleansing and announce to the nation the arrival of Messiah

I. healing of a man’s withered hand on the Sabbath

Sabbath - to cease from labor

Exodus 31:12–17 NASB95

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall surely observe My sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. ‘Therefore you are to observe the sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people. ‘For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall surely be put to death. ‘So the sons of Israel shall observe the sabbath, to celebrate the sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.’ “It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He ceased from labor, and was refreshed.”

ex 31

How far is a Sabbath days walk?

2000 cubics or about 5/8 of a mile

“When people are caught up in legalistic bondage, they view everything as a matter of life and death. The breaking of the smallest ruling, according to their perverted logic, spells out a lethal offense. There is very little room for Grace in their ironclad system of dos and don’ts” Logos International Bible Commentary pg 463