Jesus healed until late in the night after the sun went down. His miracles in Capernaum confirm he is the Prophet who would know God face to face and whom the Jews had been waiting. 

The Spirit of the Lord was on Jesus to set captives free. In his first recorded miracle he begins by casting out a demon, demonstrating the extent of his power even over the devil and his demons. 

Jesus healed the bleeding woman. telling her "your faith has healed you." To truly appreciate the miracles of Jesus we must look beyond the person healed. She was healed by her faith, and we are healed by our faith. But how and when? 

Jesus forgives the paralytic's sin and heals his affliction. The rabbis taught that a man could not be healed until he was forgiven. But Jesus uses their own teaching against them.  He heals the lame and thus proves his authority to forgiv...

Jesus makes lepers clean, which becomes a testimony to the priests. 

Miriam was a living, breathing sermon about the Lord's judgment upon the disobedient. And all lepers were symbolic living reminders to everyone about the price of disobedience paid by Miriam.  Though the lepers may have been as righteous a...

If you think Jesus healing lepers was only about healing a disease you are missing the spiritual symbolism.  The place to begin is not in the Gospels with Jesus healing lepers,but in the Old Testament with leprosy as divine judgment up...

Good and bad shepherding. What kind of shepherd are you? 

The synagogue at Nazareth was perplexed that Jesus performed spectacular miracles in Capernaum, but not in Nazareth.  The miracles of Elijah and Elisha helped a Gentile widow and leper. But Jews were excluded from because of u...

In his Nazareth sermon, Jesus is begins his ministry by fulfilling his role  reflected in the name of God found in Micah: The Breaker. 

Jesus was warmly welcomed in Galilee upon his return from the Passover in Judea because they had seen the miracles he had performed in Jerusalem.  But still, they did not believe in him.  The Jews are in stark contrast to the Samarita...

When Jesus offered the Samaritan woman spiritual water, the topic changed to her marriage and then questions about the place of true worship: Mt. Gerizim or Mt. Moriah?  The Samaritan temple or the Jewish temple. Jesus answered her questio...

Jesus purified the corrupt temple at the beginning of his ministry, and again at the end.  He was dealing with a long history of temple corruption and greed, returning the temple to its true function as a place of mercy from God and praise...

Why did Jesus turn water to wine if his "hour had not yet come?" Did he deviate from the will of his Father in order to bow to the wishes of Mary? The key is found in the Wedding and Wine symbology of the Old Testament and confirmed by Jesus in...

Jesus returned from his temptations and John revealed him as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Enough to draw his first five disciples unto himself. The invitation was not "Follow me," but "Come and See. A common rabbinic exp...

The final test for Jesus was the temptation to test God. "Throw yourself down. The angels will protect you." Jesus is so devoted to following the scriptures that the Devil challenges him to follow the promise in Psalm 91  that the angles w...

The Devil offered Jesus a shortcut to glory: Bow down and worship me. I will give you all the kingdoms of the world. Jesus refused, only worshiping God. In the end Jesus will receive the glory from the Father. The tables will be turned and the ...

Jesusˇ  first temptation mirrors the first temptation of the Jews in the desert: hunger. In both the devotion of Godˇs son is being tested.  But there is some more at stake with Jesus than a question of his devotion. There is the ques...

The temptation of Jesus in the desert holds many important gems of truth. Reflecting on his temptations and his sinless life teach us important lessons about our own temptations and guilt. (Luke 4:1-13) 

The glory of Jesus’ baptism was not followed by another glorious event, but by the humiliation of testing and temptation. Jesus’ encounter with the devil was just the opposite of what the rabbis expected, and it hold an important lesson for us....

The short narrative of the baptism of Jesus has many different layers.  Jesus being obedient to the commandment to be baptized, though he was sinless. The presence of all three members of the trinity.  And Jesus mission to take away t...

The Messiah would have a two-fold mission of deliverance and vengeance. The coming Messiah’s vengeance was celebrated as a blessing, alongside healing for the blind, deaf and lame. But John’s preaching turned their world inside out. (Luke 3:7-1...

Where repentance goes, acts of mercy follow close behind. As the gospel spread from city to city and nation to nation, repentance followed. Mercy always follows very closely behind repentance. The progressive spread of mercy can be traced from ...

Johnˇs fiery preaching on repentance and baptism to escape judgment resonated with  multitudes of Jews, which had not had a preaching prophet in 400 years. His  preaching was not only the starting point for the gospel, but had foundat...