ContradictionsReading order 212Bible context 3 min read
Did Jesus perform many signs and wonders?
Reports of numerous public miracles coexist with a refusal of signs and versions of that refusal containing a single exception.
- Textual conflict
- Interpretive tension
- The passages pull in different directions, but the conflict depends on how their wording, scope, or narrative context is read.
- Importance
- Major
- A major event or claim with wider implications.
Mark's unrestricted refusal differs from the explicit Jonah exception, while refusing demanded signs need not deny other miracles.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
Jesus and his followers perform many confirming signs
And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Mark 16:20
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:Mark 16
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
John 3:2
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
Read the full chapter:John 3