Miracles In John’s Gospel

The uniqueness of John’s Gospel and the message it gives us for this Christmas & New Year.

John’s Gospel is different than the other three Gospels namely Matthew, Mark and Luke which are commonly referred as Synoptic Gospels (syn-together & optic-seeing = seeing together). Below are few unique characters worth to make note of John’s Gospel

• Gospel of John has NO parables. Other Gospels have 37 parables in total.
• There is NO (earthly) genealogy in the Gospel of John, but Matthew and Luke records it.
• The key word of John’s Gospel is “BELIEVE” and its mentioned 98 times and the Key verses are John 20:30-31 also John 3:16
• Out of 34 Miracles mentioned in all the four Gospels, only 7 miracles are noted\mentioned in John’s Gospel, but only one miracle is mentioned in all 4 Gospels.

John’s Gospel starts with the most famous profound words of Genesis 1:1
In The Beginning…. It pulls us back directly into the beginning of all things and starts explaining the eternal genealogy of Jesus. Who Jesus is, What He was and Why He was born in flesh.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life… And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us…. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:

John Chapter 1

Why did John Record only 7 Miracles In His Gospel?

Lets see Why and What hidden message these 7 miracles teach us.

A. The 1st three miracles tell us How we can approach our salvation.

• Turning Water into Wine – John 2:1-12 —–> Word Of God(1Peter 1:23)
  In the scriptures, water stands for three things,
  1. Salvation — Isaiah 55:1
  2. Word of God — Ephesians 5:26
  3. Holy Spirit — John 7:37-38
• Healing noble man’s Son – John 4:46-54 —–> Faith
• Healing paralyzed man – John 5: 1-16 —–> Grace

B. The Last three miracles tells us What happens after our salvation.

• Jesus walks on the water – John 6:15-21 —–> There is Peace
• Jesus heals one blind man – John 9 —–> There is Light – Eyes will be opened
• Jesus raises Lazarus – John 11 —–> There is Life

C. The Middle miracle, feeding of five thousand signifies – Human Instrumentality.

• Jesus Feeding the five thousand – John 6:11 —–> Jesus gave Bread and Fish to His disciples to give to the people.
  Its the only miracle that all of the four Gospel writers mentions of, so definitely its of importance.
  We are to witness to the Lost, Least & the Last, to the Wandering & Wondering Souls with the Living Bread, through our Life, Lips & Leaflets.
  Every Christian is a Soul winner and NEEDS to be a Soul winner. Remember, the Wise Win Souls – Proverbs 11:30 & the Wise will shine like Stars — Daniel 12:3

SO QUESTION YOURSELF:

• How many stars will you have?
• Have you experienced true salvation, Do you have Peace? (Philippians 4:7). Are your Spiritual Eyes opened? and Are you enjoying new life In Christ?
• And very important of all, is your approach to salvation based on your Good WORKS? or is it grounded on Word Of God, through Faith and Grace?