APPENDIX G – MIRACLES IN ACTS
Miracles and wonders in the book of Acts:
Miracle Where Wrought Reference
Jesus ascends to
heaven Bethany/Mount of Olives 1:9
Gift of tongues Jerusalem 2:3
Apostles perform
signs and wonders Jerusalem 2:43
Peter heals a
lame man Jerusalem 3:7-11
Earthquake
answers prayer Jerusalem
4:31
Ananias and
Sapphira struck dead Jerusalem 5:1-10
Apostles perform
signs and wonders Jerusalem 5:12
Healing in
Peter’s shadow Jerusalem
5:15-16
Prison doors
opened Jerusalem
5:19
Stephen’s wonders
and miracles Jerusalem 6:8
Philip’s healing
and exorcism Samaria 8:6-13
Apostles
communicate the Holy Ghost Samaria
8:14-17
Saul’s
conversion, appearance of Jesus Road,
near Damascus 9:3-9
Saul’s eyes
healed Damascus
9:17-18
Peter heals
Aeneas of a palsy Lydda 9:32-35
Peter raises
Tabitha, or Dorcas, to life Joppa
9:36-42
Vision, angelic
appearances Joppa
10:3,
7, 10, 19
Gift of tongues Cæsarea
10:45-46
Peter delivered
out of prison by an angel Jerusalem
12:7-17
God smites Herod,
to die Cæsarea 12:21-23
Blinding of a
sorcerer Elymas Paphos 13:6-12
Paul’s signs and
wonders Iconium
14:3-4
Paul heals a
cripple Lystra 14:8-18
Miracles and
wonders Among
the Gentiles 15:12
Paul casts out a
spirit of divination Philippi 16:16-18
God opens prison
doors with earthquake Philippi
16:25-31
Gift of tongues,
Holy Ghost Ephesus
19:1-6
Special miracles
by Paul Ephesus 19:11-12
Paul restores
Eutychus to life Troas 20:8-12
Healing of
Paul’s snake-bitten hand Malta 28:3-6
Paul heals the
father of Publius and others Malta 28:7-8
Other healings
at Malta Malta 28:9
Miracles and wonders were wrought primarily by the apostles. However, they were not limited to the apostles. See, for example, Acts 6:8 (Stephen), Acts 8:6-7 (Philip), and Acts 15:2 (Barnabas). God effected some directly without using a human intermediary (e.g. Acts 2:3; 12:23). In church history in the book of Acts, the out-of-the-ordinary spiritual manifestations are most prominent in the early pages of the book, and ebb in the latter pages.
“There is a noteworthy correspondence, or parallelism, between the miracles wrought through Peter and those wrought through Paul.”[1]
Peter Paul
Lame man in
temple, 3:2-8 14:8-10,
Healed a cripple
Healed in
cities, shadow 5:12, 15-16 19:11-12,
Miracles in Ephesus, handkerchief
Let out of
prison 5:17-21; 12:1-10 16:22-27,
Let out of prison
Dorcas raised
9:36-42 20:9-12,
Eutychus raised
Received
visions, 10:3ff. 16:9ff.,
Received visions
9:32-35 Æneas sick of the palsy, Peter
13:11-12 Blinded
Elymas, Paul
16:18 cast out devil, Paul
Acts, Darrell Bock, page
157 – 14 miracles in Acts and 10 summary notices of miracles
4
– healing
2
– raising dead
4
– liberation or freeing
3
– judgment
1
– preservation
Summaries: (2:43; 5:12, 15, 16; 6:8; 8:6-7, 13; 14:3; 19:11-12; 28:9)
2:43 Signs and wonders 14:4
5:1-11 Rebuke | Judgment 13:8-12
12:7 Prison chains fall off 16:26
9:33-35 Paralytic | Fever 28:7-9
Bock: “God’s power through Jesus is the point of these accounts…”
[1] Companion Bible, Bullinger, p. 1575.
2 comments:
Very helpful appendix. Your commentary on Acts will be worth the price just for the appendixes / appendices. Good job!
E. T. Chapman
Thanks, brother, I appreciate it. I feel a little like I am getting bogged down and not staying far enough ahead, but perhaps it is just the holidays.
I put that appendix on here in smaller type, since it seemed to keep getting messed up when I tried to enlarge it for blogger. But I think people can just increase the size on their screen if they need it to be bigger. Some of the blogger formatting escapes me!
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