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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2011
JESUS CONSIDERED AS A WORKER OF MIRACLES
That the Jewish people in the time of Jesus expected miracles from the Messiah is in itself natural, since the Messiah was a second Moses and the greatest of the prophets, and to Moses and the prophets the national legend attributed miracles of all kinds : by later Jewish writings it is rendered probable; by our gospels, certain. When Jesus on one occasion had (without natural means) cured a blind and dumb demoniac, the people were hereby led to ask : Is not this the son of David? (Matt. xii. 23,) a proof that a miraculous power of heahng was regarded as an attribute of the Messiah. John the Baptist, on hearing of the works of Jesus, (ἔργα), sent to him with the inquiry, Art thou he that should come, (έρχόμενος)? Jesus, in proof of the affirmative, merely appealed again to his miracles (Matt. xi. 2 ff. parall.). At the Feast of Tabernacles, which was celebrated by Jesus in Jerusalem, many of the people believed on him, saying, in justification of their faith, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done (John vii. 31)?
But not only was it predetermined in the popular expectation that the Messiah should work miracles in general,—the particular kinds of miracles which he was to perform were fixed, also in accordance with Old Testament types and declarations. Moses dispensed meat and drink to the people in a supernatural manner (Exod. xvi. 17): the same was expected, as the rabbins explicitly say, from the Messiah.
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