BIBLE RECORDS | 124 MIRACLES (82)

1. What are "Miracles"?

a) Miracles are those acts that only God can perform; usually superseding natural laws. Baker’s Dictionary of the Bible defines a miracle as “an event in the external world brought about by the immediate agency or the simple volition of God.” It goes on to add that a miracle occurs to show that the power behind it is not limited to the laws of matter or mind as it interrupts fixed natural laws. So the term supernatural applies quite accurately.

b) Miracles are also known as Signs and Wonders.

c) Here we have one of the 124 miracles recorded in the Bible.

2. Miracle 82: HEALING—2 blind men (Matthew 9:27-31). 

a) Two Blind Men Healed.

Matthew 9:27-31 New King James Version (NKJV)
27 When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, “Son of David, have mercy on us!”

28 And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?”

They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”

29 Then He touched their eyes, saying, “According to your faith let it be to you.” 30 And their eyes were opened. And Jesus sternly warned them, saying, “See that no one knows it.” 31 But when they had departed, they spread the news about Him in all that country. 

b)  Blind.

i) Blind beggars are frequently mentioned (Matthew 9:27; 12:22; 20:30; John 5:3).

ii) The blind are to be treated with compassion (Leviticus 19:14; Deuteronomy 27:18).

iii) Blindness was sometimes a punishment for disobedience (1 Samuel 11:2; Jeremiah 39:7), sometimes the effect of old age (Genesis 27:1; 1 Kings 14:4; 1 Samuel 4:15). Conquerors sometimes blinded their captives (2 Kings 25:7; 1 Samuel 11:2).

iv) Blindness denotes ignorance as to spiritual things (Isaiah 6:10; 42:18-19; Matthew 15:14; Ephesians 4:18).

v)  The opening of the eyes of the blind is peculiar to the Messiah (Isaiah 29:18).

vi) Elymas was smitten with blindness at Paul’s word (Acts 13:11). 

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