The Miracles of Jesus: How the Savior’s Mighty Acts Serve as Signs of Redemption

by Vern Poythress

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2016

Overview

Jesus walked on water. He healed a blind man. He turned water into wine. More than just displays of his divine power, Jesus’s miracles signify something deeper—they’re windows into God’s grand story of redemption, foreshadowing the great miracle of Christ’s death and resurrection. By explaining the meaning and significance of all 26 miracles recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, New Testament scholar Vern Poythress shows us their relevance for our lives today. Poythress unpacks how understanding the meaning of Christ’s miracles will help us better grasp the salvation God has brought into the world.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Rather, each miracle serves to reinforce the sense that God’s hand of providence was working in the events that unfolded” (Page 102)

“By being baptized, he identified with the sinners of Israel who were coming to be baptized. In effect, he was confessing not his own sins (of which he had none) but the sins of Israel, the nation whom he was called to represent. He identified with sinners.” (Page 109)

“The people saw that Jesus’s miracle was analogous to those of the two Old Testament prophets. The miracles showed the power of God at work, and they attested to the authenticity of the prophet.” (Pages 25–26)

“Jesus has made it clear that physical healing is symbolic of spiritual healing from spiritual blindness:” (Page 35)

“The triumph over Satan in Jesus’s exorcisms foreshadowed the time when he defeated Satan on the cross.” (Page 140)

Product Details

• Title: The Miracles of Jesus: How the Savior’s Mighty Acts Serve as Signs of Redemption
• Author: Vern Poythress
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Jesus Christ › Miracles; Bible. N.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9781433546075, 9781433546105, 9781433546082, 9781433546099, 1433546078, 1433546108, 1433546086, 1433546094
• Resource ID: LLS:MRCLSJSSSRDMPTN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:36:10Z

About Vern Poythress

Vern Sheridan Poythress (b. 1946) is an evangelical philosopher, theologian, and Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Westminster Theological Seminary where he has taught since 1976. In 1981 he was ordained as a teaching elder in the Reformed Presbyterian Church Evangelical Synod, which later merged with the Presbyterian Church in America.