by

Jose L. Santiago

BIBLE 323:  The Gospel of John

Liberty University

September 24, 2012

          There are eight sign miracles that Jesus Christ had did in order to prove His deity.  These eight sign miracles will be discussed and explained how each of these miracles reveal the deity of Jesus Christ as God come from Heaven in human flesh.  This will prove that Jesus Christ was here in order that those might believe in His deity as God in human flesh.

John 2:1-11 Water to Wine Miracle

            The very first miracle was written in the Book of John in John 2:1-11 and happened in Cana where Jesus and His disciple had gotten invited to a wedding.  At the wedding celebration Jesus Christ shows His first miracle as being God in the flesh by turning water into wine.  What had led to Jesus turning water into wine was that Jesus’s mother, Mary, said that there wine had given out.  Mary told Jesus this because she knew that He was from God.  Jesus at first told His mother that His time to perform miracles was not right now.  Maybe Jesus would not perform a miracle because at that particular time He was not supposed to perform a miracle until later on.  Jesus does not do the miracle until His mother, Mary, instructs the servant at the wedding to do whatever her Son asks them to do.  Jesus then tells the servants to get 6 water pots filled with water and told them to draw from the pots to fill the cups with the water that was instantly turned to wine.  John shows that Jesus is God because of turning something natural, water, into another substance, which became supernatural.[1]

John 4:46-54 Healing the Son of a Nobleman

            Jesus was again in the city of Cana when He was approached by a Nobleman who heard that Jesus left Judea.  The Nobleman asked Jesus to come and heal his sick son before he dies.  Jesus told the Nobleman to go because his son will live.  The Nobleman believed what Jesus had said and left.  When the Nobleman came almost home his servants met him and said that his son’s fever left the son when Jesus said that the Nobleman’s son lives.  The way Jesus had healed the son from a distance proves that He is from God from this second miracle that Jesus Christ did.  Just like God answers our prayers of healing, so did He with the Nobleman’s son.[2]

John 5:1-9 The Healing of the Lame Man

            When Jesus Christ was in Jerusalem there was a pool called the Pool of Bethesda.  This pool was thought to have been a healing pool that would heal people of their infirmities once the water had been stirred up by an angel.  There happened to be a lame man by the pool that was lame for 38 years.  Jesus walked to the man and asked the man if he would like to be healed.  The man just states that he could not enter the water without help, but Jesus tells the man to pick his bed up and walk.  Once Jesus told the man to pick his bed up and walk, the man immediately was healed.  This is significant because even though God sees us when we are broken down; He comes to us in order that we may believe in Him.  This proves that God has mercy on the lame and weak even when we do not ask.  This proves the deity that Jesus Christ is God.  This displeased the Jewish leaders, but shows that God will show mercy even on the Sabbath.[3]

John 6:5-14 The Feeding of the Multitude

            Jesus Christ was at the Sea of Galilee with His disciples.  There Jesus saw about 5,000 men not counting women and children.  This meant that there were a lot more than 5,000 people.  When Jesus was going up the mountain the people followed him and testing the disciples Jesus asked His disciple basically where bread should be bought, so that the people could eat.  This is where Andrew finds a boy that has lunch how far the lunch would go to feed all of these people.  This showed that Andrew had faith in Jesus Christ and knew that God would not hungry people go hungry.  Jesus took the loaves and fish that the boy had and gave thanks to God the Father for the food.  After giving thanks, Jesus gave His disciples all of the food that had miraculously been multiplied so much that there was a lot of food left over.  This proves that Jesus Christ is God in that He has the power to multiply a little bit of food into enough to feed 5,000 men (not including many women and children) with plenty to fill everyone and still have food left.[4]

John 6:15-21 Walking on Water

            Jesus Christ is so powerful that He could only be God in the flesh that He is able to walk on water.  The disciples were in a boat in the Sea of Tiberius when they were hit by some bad winds.  Jesus was not with them at this time, but suddenly they see Jesus walking on the water towards them.  This scared the disciples because at first they did not know it was Jesus.  Jesus enters the boat and that is when they are on the other side of the Sea of Tiberius already.  This proves that Jesus is God because only God can have the power to walk on water and instantaneously go from one place to another.  There was no technology at this time to do this.  God is showing that in an instant He can help us in our time of trouble too.[5]

John 9:1-7 Healing the Blind

            When Jesus and His disciples were walking they saw a blind man.  His disciples inquired of Jesus and asked Him basically who had to sin to make this man blind.  Jesus told His disciples that no one did, but the man was blind so that Jesus could show who Jesus was.  Jesus had spit on the ground and made clay and rubbed it in the man’s eyes.  Jesus then told the man to go was the clay off in the pool of Siloam.  The man did what Jesus said and the man came back being able to see.  This miracle that Jesus did proves that Jesus is God because He is able to heal if we obey His instructions.  He tested the man with telling him to go wash it off in a particular place to see if the man would obey His words.  Jesus Christ is looking for us to obey Him because without Him we are lost and this shows His deity as proof He is God.  No man could heal like this unless God be inside of Him.  By making clay Jesus is showing man how He made us in the dust of the earth.[6]

John 11:1-54 Raising the Dead

            In this passage of Scripture we learn more about the power that Jesus has in order to prove His deity as God.  Jesus gets notice that Lazarus (who was a good friend of Jesus) was sick.  Jesus does not go right away to show how much faith the sisters of Lazarus and Jesus’s disciples had.  Jesus waits until Lazarus dies and even waits until the 3 intense days of mourning are over.  The one sister of Lazarus named Martha comes out to meet Jesus when she is kind of mad at Him by telling Him if He had been there Lazarus could have lived because she knew Jesus has the power to heal.  Following Martha’s statement she says that she knows that God will still give to Jesus whatever He asks from God.  Then as we read in John, Mary meets Jesus in the crowd of people mourning and lies at the feet of Jesus and says that if Jesus was there her brother would not be dead.  Jesus then asks where they put Lazarus after telling them that Lazarus will rise.  Jesus goes to the tomb where the stone was removed and says out loud for Lazarus to, “Come out!”  Lazarus then comes out of the tomb and this shows the power that Jesus has and that He is God.  No one is able to bring the dead back to life except God being in Him.  Back then no man could do this because Jesus had not given the power for any man to raise the dead yet.  This shows that we can have victory over death if we put our trust in Jesus Christ.[7]

John 21:1-14 A Lot of Fish Miracle

            In this story we see that Jesus appears to the disciples at the Sea of Galilee after His resurrection from the dead.  The disciples had gone out to fish and caught nothing.  Then Jesus stood at the shore, but the disciples did not know it was Him.  Jesus asked the disciples if the caught any fish and they told Him they did not.  Then Jesus told them to cast their nets on the right side of the boat and they would catch fish.  The disciples did this and they had caught so many fish that the net was hard to pull in.  Then Jesus finally tells Peter that He is the Lord and Peter jumps into the water to meet Him.  Peter and the other disciples that also jumped off the boat see that there is a fire with bread and fish, but Jesus tells them to bring the fish they caught over and eat with Him.  The fact that Jesus Christ is able to bring fish to the disciples instantly shows how powerful He is and proves He is God.[8]