Milagres de Jesus
Os Evangelhos registram dezenas de milagres realizados por Jesus — curas, ressurreições, domínio sobre a natureza e libertações. Cada milagre revelava sua divindade e compaixão.
Curas de cegos e surdos
Jesus devolveu a visão aos cegos e a audição aos surdos, manifestando seu poder sobre toda enfermidade e deficiência.
As Jesus continued on from there, two blind men followed him, shouting, "Son of David, please have mercy on us!" When Jesus arrived at the house where he was staying, the blind men came in too.
"Are you convinced that I’m able to do this?" he asked them.
"Yes, Lord," they replied.
Then Jesus touched their eyes, and said, "Because of your trust in me it will happen!" And they could see. Then Jesus warned them, "Make sure nobody knows about this." But they went and spread the word about Jesus everywhere.
As they left Jericho, a huge crowd followed Jesus. Two blind men were sitting at the side of the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they called out, "Have mercy on us, Lord, son of David!" The crowd told them to be quiet, but they shouted even louder, "Have mercy on us, Lord, son of David!"
Jesus stopped. He called them over, asking, "What do you want me to do for you?"
"Lord, please make us able to see," they replied.
Jesus had pity on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they could see, and they followed him.
They went to Bethsaida where some people brought a blind man to Jesus. They begged Jesus to touch him and heal him. Jesus took the blind man by the hand and took him outside the village. Jesus spat on the man’s eyes and touched him with his hands.
Then Jesus asked him, "Can you see anything?"
The man looked around, and said, "I can see people, but they look like trees walking." So Jesus touched the man’s eyes again. He could see properly—he was cured and his sight was clear. Jesus sent the man home, and told him, "Don’t go back through the village."
Leaving the region of Tyre, Jesus passed through Sidon and then on to the Sea of Galilee and the territory of the Ten Cities. There they brought him a deaf man who also could not speak properly. They asked Jesus to touch the man with his hand and heal him. After Jesus took him aside from the crowd, Jesus put his fingers in the deaf man’s ears. Then he touched the man’s tongue with spit. Jesus looked up to heaven and with a sigh he said, "Ephphatha," which means, "Open!" The man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was gone, and he began speaking properly. Jesus gave them strict orders not to tell anyone, but the more he said this, the more they spread the news. They were totally amazed and said, "Everything he does is marvelous. He even makes the deaf hear, and the dumb speak."
Jesus and his disciples passed through Jericho, and as they were leaving town, accompanied by a large crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting at the roadside. When he heard it was Jesus of Nazareth, he started shouting out, "Jesus, son of David, please have mercy on me!" Lots of people told him to be quiet, but that only made him shout even more, "Jesus, son of David, please have mercy on me!"
Jesus stopped, and said, "Tell him to come here." So they called him over, telling him, "Good news! Get up. He’s calling for you." Bartimaeus jumped up, threw off his coat, and rushed over to Jesus.
"What do you want me to do for you?" Jesus asked him.
"Teacher," he said to Jesus, "I want to see!"
"You can go. Your trust in me has healed you." Immediately Bartimaeus could see and he followed Jesus as he went on his way.
As Jesus approached Jericho a blind man was sitting beside the road begging. He heard the crowd going past, so he asked what was happening. They told him, "Jesus of Nazareth is passing by." He called out, "Jesus, son of David, please have mercy on me!" Those at the front of the crowd told him to stop shouting and be quiet, but he only shouted louder, "Son of David, please have mercy on me!"
Jesus stopped and told them to bring the blind man to him. As he came over, Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?"
"Lord, please, I want to see," he pleaded.
"Then see!" Jesus told him. "Your trust in me has healed you." Immediately the man could see. He followed Jesus, praising God. Everyone there who saw what happened also praised God.
As Jesus was passing by, he saw a man born blind. His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, why was this man born blind? Was it him who sinned, or was it his parents?"
Jesus replied, "It wasn’t because of the sins of the man or his parents. But so that what God can do may be shown in his life, we have to keep on doing the work of the one who sent me as long as it is still daytime. The night is coming when no one can work. While I’m here in the world I am the light of the world."
After he’d said this, Jesus spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva which he put on the man’s eyes. Then Jesus told him, "Go and wash in the Pool of Siloam" (which means "sent"). So the man went and washed, and when he went home he could see.
Curas de paralíticos e enfermos
Paralíticos caminharam, leprosos ficaram limpos e todo tipo de doença foi curada pelo toque e pela palavra de Jesus.
A leper approached him and bowed down, worshiping him, and said, "Lord, if you’re willing, please heal me." Jesus reached out and touched him with his hand. "I am willing," he said. "Be healed!" Immediately he was healed from his leprosy.
"Make sure you don’t tell anyone," Jesus told him. "Go and show yourself to the priest and give the offering which Moses required as public proof."
There they brought to him a paralyzed man lying on a mat. When Jesus saw how they trusted him, he told the paralyzed man, "My friend, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven."
In response some of the religious teachers said to themselves, "He’s speaking blasphemy!"
But Jesus knew what they were thinking. He asked them, "Why are you thinking evil thoughts in your minds? What is easier to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Get up and walk’? But to convince you that the Son of man does have the authority to forgive sins…" he said to the paralyzed man, "Get up, pick up your mat, and go home!" The man got up and went home.
A man was there with a crippled hand. "Does the law allow healing on the Sabbath?" they asked him, looking for a reason to accuse him.
"Suppose you have a sheep and it falls into a hole in the ground on the Sabbath. Don’t you grab hold of it and pull it out?" Jesus asked them. "Don’t you think a human being is worth much more than a sheep? So yes, you are allowed to do good on the Sabbath." Then he said to the man, "Hold out your hand." The man held out his hand, and it was healed, just as healthy as the other hand.
Simon’s mother-in-law was sick in bed with a fever, so they told Jesus about her. He went to her, took her by the hand, and helped her up. The fever immediately left her. Then she made them a meal.
A leper came to him asking for help. The man kneeled down before Jesus, saying, "Please, if you’re willing, you can heal me!" With compassion Jesus reached out and touched the man, and said, "I am willing. Be healed!"
The leprosy left him immediately, and he was healed.
Four men had brought a man who was paralyzed, but they could not get near Jesus because of the crowds. So they went up on the roof and took it apart. After they had made an opening above Jesus, they lowered down the mat with the paralyzed man lying on it.
When Jesus saw the trust these men had, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, "Friend, your sins are forgiven."
Some of the religious teachers sitting there thought to themselves, "Why is he talking like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins? Only God can do that!"
Jesus knew right away what they were thinking. He said to them, "Why are you thinking like this? What’s easier: to say to the paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’? But to convince you that the Son of man has the right to forgive sins, I say to you (the paralyzed man), ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and go home.’"
He stood up, picked up his mat, and walked out in front of everyone there. They were all amazed, and praised God, saying, "We’ve never ever seen anything like this!"
Jesus went to the synagogue again. A man was there who had a crippled hand. Some of those there were watching Jesus to see if he would heal the man on the Sabbath, because they were looking for a reason to accuse him of breaking the law. Jesus told the man with the crippled hand, "Come and stand here in front of everyone."
"Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath, or to do evil? Should you save life, or should you kill?" he asked them. But they didn’t say a word.
He looked around at them in exasperation, very upset by their hard-hearted attitude. Then he told the man, "Hold out your hand." The man held out his hand, and it was healed.
Once when Jesus was visiting one of the towns, he met a man there who had a very bad case of leprosy. The man fell with his face to the ground and begged Jesus, "Please Lord, if you’re willing, you can make me clean."
Jesus reached out and touched the man. "I am willing," he said. "Be clean!" Immediately the leprosy disappeared.
Some men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. They tried to take him in and lay him in front of Jesus. But they couldn’t find any way through the crowd, so they went up on the roof and made a hole in the roof tiles. Then they lowered the man down on the mat, right into the crowd in front of Jesus.
When Jesus saw the trust they had in him, he said to the man, "Your sins are forgiven."
The religious teachers and the Pharisees began to argue with that. "Who is this who’s speaking blasphemies?" they asked. "Who can forgive sins? Only God can do that!"
Jesus knew what they were arguing about, so he asked them, "Why are you thinking to question this? What is easier? To say your sins are forgiven, or to say get up and walk? However, I will prove to you that the Son of man has the authority here on earth to forgive sins." Then he said to the paralyzed man, "I tell you: Get up, pick up your mat, and go home."
Immediately the man stood up in front of them. He picked up the mat he’d been lying on, and went home, praising God as he went.
On another Sabbath he went into the synagogue to teach. A man was there with a crippled right hand. The religious teachers and the Pharisees were observing Jesus closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath. They wanted to find something to accuse him of.
But Jesus knew what was in their minds. He told the man with the crippled hand, "Get up, and stand here in front of everyone." The man got up and stood there.
Then Jesus turned to them and said, "Let me ask you a question. Is it legal to do good on the Sabbath, or to do bad? To save life, or to destroy it?"
He looked around at all of them there. Then he said to the man, "Hold out your hand." The man did so, and his hand became like new.
When he’d finished speaking to the people, Jesus left for Capernaum. A centurion lived there who had a servant he greatly valued who was sick and was about to die. When he heard about Jesus, the centurion sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his servant.
When the elders came to Jesus, they pleaded with him strongly, saying, "Please come and do what he asks. He deserves your help, because he loves our people and he built a synagogue for us."
Jesus went with them and as they approached the house, the centurion sent some friends to Jesus to tell him, "Lord, please don’t trouble yourself by coming into my house, because I’m not worthy of that. I didn’t even think that I was worthy to come and see you. Just give the command, and my servant will be healed. For I’m under the authority of my superior officers, and I have soldiers under my authority too. I command one to go and he goes, another to come and he comes. I command my servant to do something and he does it."
When Jesus heard this he was astounded. He turned to the crowd that was following him, and said, "I tell you, I haven’t found trust like this even in Israel." Then the centurion’s friends returned to the house and found the servant in good health.
and a woman was there who had been crippled by an evil spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not stand straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and told her, "You’re freed of your sickness." Then he placed his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up, and she praised God.
One Sabbath Jesus went to have a meal at the home of one of the leaders of the Pharisees where they watched him closely. A man was there whose arms and legs were swollen. So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees, "Does the law allow healing on the Sabbath, or not?" But they kept quiet. Jesus touched the man, healed him, and sent him on his way.
As Jesus continued on his way to Jerusalem, he passed along the border between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a particular village, ten lepers met him, standing at a distance. They called out, "Jesus, Master, please have mercy on us."
When Jesus saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." On their way there, they were healed. One of them when he saw that he was healed, returned to Jesus, shouting praises to God. He fell down at Jesus' feet, thanking him. He was a Samaritan.
"Weren’t ten lepers healed?" Jesus asked. "Where are the other nine? Didn’t anyone else come back to praise God—only this foreigner?"
Jesus told the man, "Get up and go on your way. Your trust has healed you."
After this there was a Jewish festival, so Jesus went to Jerusalem. Now near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem is a pool called Bethzatha in Hebrew, with five porches beside it. Crowds of sick people were lying in these porches—those who were blind, lame, or paralyzed. One man who was there had been sick for thirty-eight years. Jesus looked at him, knowing he had been lying there for a long time, and asked him, "Do you want to be healed?"
"Sir," the sick man answered, "I don’t have anyone to help me get into the pool when the water is stirred. While I’m trying to get there, someone always gets in before me."
"Stand up, pick up your mat, and start walking!" Jesus told him. Immediately the man was healed. He picked up his mat and started walking.
Now the day that this happened was the Sabbath.
He visited Cana in Galilee again, where he had turned water into wine. Nearby in the town of Capernaum lived a royal official whose son was very sick. When he heard that Jesus had returned from Judea to Galilee, he went to Jesus and begged him to come and heal his son who was close to death.
"Unless you see signs and wonders you people really won’t trust me," said Jesus.
"Lord, just come before my child dies," the official pleaded.
"Go on home," Jesus told him. "Your son will live!"
The man trusted what Jesus told him and left for home. While he was on his way, his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and recovering. He asked them what time it was when his son began to get better. "Yesterday at one p.m. the fever left him," they told him. Then the father realized this was the precise time when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live!" So he and everyone in his household trusted in Jesus. This was the second miraculous sign Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.
A mulher com fluxo de sangue
Uma mulher que sofria há doze anos tocou a orla do manto de Jesus e foi curada instantaneamente pela sua fé.
At that moment a woman who had been sick with bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the hem of his cloak. She had told herself, "If I can just touch his cloak, I’ll be healed."
Jesus turned and saw her. "Be happy, daughter, for your trust in me has healed you," he told her. The woman was immediately healed.
A woman was there who had been ill from bleeding for twelve years. She’d suffered considerably under the care of many doctors, and had spent all she had. But nothing helped her—in fact she’d grown worse. She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd, and touched his cloak. She was telling herself, "If I can just touch his cloak, I’ll be healed."
The bleeding stopped immediately, and she felt her body healed from her disease.
In the crowd was a woman who had suffered with bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all she had on doctors, but none of them had been able to heal her. She approached Jesus from behind and touched the hem of his cloak. Immediately the bleeding stopped.
"Who touched me?" Jesus asked. Everybody around denied doing so.
"But Master," said Peter, "there are people crowding around you, and they keep pushing up against you."
"Someone touched me," Jesus replied. "I know because power went out from me."
When the woman realized she couldn’t go unnoticed, she came forward, trembling, and fell down before him. Right in front of everybody she explained the reason why she had touched Jesus, and that she’d been cured immediately.
Jesus said to her, "Daughter, your trust has healed you, go in peace."
Ressurreições
Jesus ressuscitou mortos — a filha de Jairo, o filho da viúva de Naim e Lázaro. Ele é Senhor sobre a morte.
While he was telling them this, one of the leading officials came and bowed before him. "My daughter has just died," the man told Jesus. "But if you come and place your hand on her, I know she will come back to life."
Jesus and his disciples got up and followed him.
Jesus arrived at the official’s house. He saw the flute-players and the crowd that was weeping loudly. "Please leave," he told them, "For the girl isn’t dead, she’s just asleep." But they laughed and made fun of him. But once the crowd had been sent out, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up.
A synagogue leader, a man named Jairus, came to him. When he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet and pleaded with him, saying, "My little daughter is about to die. Please come and place your hands on her so she may be healed and live."
So Jesus went with him. Everybody followed, crowding and jostling him.
When they arrived at the synagogue leader’s house, Jesus saw all the commotion, with people crying and wailing. He went in and asked them, "Why are you making such a commotion with all this crying? The little girl isn’t dead, she’s just sleeping." They laughed scornfully at him.
Jesus made everyone leave. Then he went into the room where the little girl was lying, taking with him the child’s father and mother, and the three disciples. Taking the little girl’s hand he said, "Talitha koum," which means, "Little girl, get up!"
The little girl, who was twelve years old, got up immediately and began walking around. They were completely astonished at what had happened.
"What shall I compare these people to?" asked Jesus. "What are they like? They’re like children sitting in the market who tell one another, ‘We played the flute for you but you didn’t dance; we sang sad songs but you didn’t cry.’ When John the Baptist came he didn’t eat bread or drink wine, but you say he’s demon-possessed. Now the Son of man is here, and eats and drinks with people, but you say, ‘Look, he spends his time eating too much food and drinking too much wine. Plus he’s a friend of tax collectors and sinners.’ However, God’s wise ways are proved right by all who follow him!"
One of the Pharisees invited Jesus to come and eat with him. Jesus went to the Pharisee’s house and sat down to eat the meal. A woman who was a sinner in that town found out that Jesus was eating in the Pharisee’s house. She went there, carrying an alabaster jar of perfume.
One was a man called Jairus, a synagogue leader, who came and fell at Jesus' feet. He pleaded with Jesus to come to his home because his only daughter was dying. She was about twelve years old.
While Jesus was on his way there, people were crowding around him.
While he was still speaking, someone came from the home of the synagogue leader to tell him, "Your daughter’s dead. You don’t need to bother the Teacher any longer."
But when he heard this, Jesus told Jairus, "Don’t be afraid. If you trust, she will be healed."
When Jesus arrived at the house he didn’t allow anyone else to go in except Peter, John, and James, and the girl’s father and mother. All the people there were crying and mourning for her.
"Don’t cry," Jesus told them. "She’s not dead, she’s just sleeping." They laughed at him, because they knew that she was dead. But Jesus took her by the hand, and said in a loud voice, "My child, get up!"
She came back to life, and she got up at once. Jesus told them to give her something to eat. Her parents were astonished at what had happened, but Jesus instructed them not to tell anyone about it.
A man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany with his sisters Mary and Martha. Mary was the one who had anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. It was her brother Lazarus who was sick. So the sisters sent a message to Jesus: "Lord, your close friend is sick." When Jesus heard the news he said, "The end result of this sickness will not be death. Through this God’s glory will be revealed so that the Son of God may be glorified."
Even though Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus, and had heard that Lazarus was sick, he remained where he was for two more days. Then he told the disciples, "Let’s return to Judea."
The disciples replied, "Rabbi, just a few days ago the Jews were trying to stone you. Do you really want to go back there now?"
"Aren’t there twelve hours in a day?" Jesus replied. "If you walk during the day you don’t stumble because you can see where you’re going by the light of this world. But if you walk during the night you stumble because you have no light." After telling them this, he said, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m going to go there and wake him up!"
The disciples said, "Lord, if he’s sleeping then he’ll get better."
Jesus had been referring to the death of Lazarus, but the disciples thought he meant actual sleep. So Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead.
Domínio sobre a natureza
Jesus acalmou a tempestade, andou sobre as águas e multiplicou pães. A natureza obedece à voz do seu Criador.
Then Jesus got into a boat and his disciples went with him. A violent storm suddenly blew up, and waves crashed over the boat, but Jesus went on sleeping. The disciples went over to him and woke him up. "Save us, Lord! We’re going to drown!" they shouted.
"Why are you so afraid? Why do you trust so little?" he asked them. Then he got up, and commanded the winds and the waves to stop. Everything became absolutely calm. The disciples were astonished, and said, "Who is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!"
As evening came the disciples went up to him and said, "This place is miles from anywhere and it’s getting late. Send the crowds away so they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves."
But Jesus told them, "They don’t need to leave. You give them something to eat!"
"All we have here are five loaves and a couple of fish," they replied.
"Bring them to me," said Jesus. He told the crowds to sit down on the grass. Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, looked up to heaven and blessed them. After that he broke the loaves into pieces and gave the bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the crowds. Everybody ate until they were full. Then they collected up the leftovers which filled twelve baskets. Some five thousand men ate the food, not counting women and children.
About 3 a.m. Jesus caught up with them, walking on the sea.
Jesus called his disciples over and told them, "I feel really sorry for all these people, because they’ve been with me now for three days, and they have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry, in case they faint on their way home."
"Where could we find enough bread here in this desert to feed such a huge crowd?" the disciples responded.
"How many loaves of bread do you have?" Jesus asked.
"Seven, and a few small fish," they replied.
Jesus told the crowd to sit down on the ground. He took the seven loaves and the fish, and after blessing the food he broke it into pieces and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the crowds. Everybody ate until they were full, and then they collected the leftovers, filling seven baskets. Four thousand men ate the food, not counting women and children.
When they arrived at Capernaum, those who were in charge of collecting the half-shekel Temple tax came to Peter and asked him, "Your teacher does pay the half-shekel tax, doesn’t he?"
"Yes, of course," Peter replied.
When he returned to where they were staying, Jesus anticipated the issue. "What do you think, Simon?" Jesus asked him. "Do the kings of this world collect their taxes and duties from their own sons or from others?"
"From others," Peter replied. So Jesus told him, "In that case the sons are exempt. But to avoid giving offense to anyone, go to the lake, and throw out a fishing line with a hook. Pull in the first fish you catch, and when you open its mouth there you’ll find a stater coin. Take the coin and give it to them for both me and you."
The next morning as he walked back into the city, he was hungry. He saw a fig tree at the side of the road, so he went over to it but didn’t find any fruit, only leaves.
He told the fig tree, "May you never ever produce fruit again!" Immediately the fig tree withered.
The disciples were amazed to see this. "How did the fig tree wither so suddenly?" they asked.
"I tell you the truth," Jesus replied, "If you really trust in God, and don’t doubt him, you could not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even more. If you said to this mountain, ‘Get up and throw yourself into the sea,’ it would happen! You will receive everything you ask for in prayer, as long as you trust in God."
Soon a terrible storm started blowing, and waves crashed against the boat, filling it with water. Jesus was asleep in the stern, resting his head on a cushion. The disciples woke him up, shouting at him, "Teacher, don’t you care that we’re about to drown?"
Jesus woke up. He told the wind to die down and told the waves, "Be quiet! Be still." The wind stopped, and the water became completely calm. "Why are you so frightened? Haven’t you learned to trust me?" he asked them.
They were stunned and terrified. They asked each other, "Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!"
It was getting late in the day and Jesus' disciples came to him. They told him, "We’re miles from anywhere, and it’s really late. You should tell the people to go and buy themselves something to eat in the villages and countryside nearby."
But Jesus replied, "You give them something to eat."
"What? We’d need more than six month’s pay to buy bread to feed all these people," the disciples replied.
"Well, how much bread do you have?" Jesus asked. "Go and see."
They went and checked, and told him, "Five loaves, and a couple of fish."
Jesus told everyone to sit down in groups on the green grass. They sat in groups of hundreds and fifties. Then he took the five loaves and the two fish. Looking up to heaven he blessed the food and broke the bread into pieces. Then he handed the bread to the disciples to give to the people, and he divided the fish up between all of them. Everyone ate until they were full. Then they collected up the leftovers of the bread and fish—twelve basketfuls. A total of five thousand men plus their families ate the food.
He could see them being buffeted about as they rowed hard because the wind was blowing against them. In the early morning hours Jesus came to them, walking on the water. He would have passed them, but when they saw him walking on the water they thought he was a ghost. They screamed out because they could all see him and were absolutely terrified.
Jesus told them right away: "Don’t worry, it’s me. Don’t be afraid!" He went over to them and climbed into the boat, and the wind died down. They were totally shocked,
Around this time there was another large crowd that had nothing to eat. Jesus called the disciples together and told them, "I feel for the crowd because they have already stayed with me for three days and they have nothing to eat. If I send them home without food, they’ll faint on the way. Some have come from a long way away."
"Where could anybody find enough bread to feed them here in this wilderness?" answered his disciples.
"How many loaves do you have?" he asked.
"Seven," they replied.
He told the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves of bread, and gave thanks. He broke the bread and handed the pieces to his disciples to give to the crowd. They had a few fish as well, so having blessed them, he said, "Take these and share them too."
They ate until they were full, and then collected up seven baskets of leftovers. There were four thousand people there. After sending them on their way,
The next day, as they left Bethany, Jesus was hungry. From some distance away he saw a fig tree with leaves, so he went over to it to see if it had any fruit. But when he got there, he found it had only leaves, because it was not the season for figs.
He said to the tree, "May no one eat fruit from you ever again." His disciples heard his words.
The following morning as they returned, they saw the fig tree, withered from the roots up. Peter remembered what Jesus had done, and said to him, "Rabbi, look, the fig tree that you cursed has withered."
"Trust in God," Jesus replied. "Believe me when I say to you that if you told this mountain, ‘Get out of here and be thrown into the sea,’ and you don’t doubt in your heart, but are convinced about what you’re asking, then it will happen! I’m telling you that whatever you pray for, whatever you ask, trust that you’ve received it, and it’s yours. But when you’re praying, if you have something against someone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your sins."
One day, as Jesus was standing beside the Sea of Galilee, people crowded around him to hear the word of God. Jesus noticed two boats lying on the shore, left there by fishermen who were washing their nets. Jesus got into a boat, the one that belonged to Simon, and asked him to push it out into the water, just offshore. Then Jesus sat down in the boat and taught the people from there.
After he’d finished speaking, he told Simon, "Go out into deeper water, and let down your nets for a catch."
"Teacher, we worked hard all night, and didn’t catch anything. But if you say so, I’ll let down the nets," Simon replied.
Having done this, a large shoal of fish filled the nets full to breaking point. They waved to their partners in the other boat, asking them to come over and help. The others came over and together they filled both of the boats with fish. The boats were so full that they began to sink.
When Simon Peter saw what had happened, he dropped to his knees before Jesus. "Lord, please stay away from me, for I am a sinful man!" he exclaimed. For he and everybody with him were completely amazed by the catch of fish that they had landed. James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon’s partners, felt the same way.
"Don’t be afraid," Jesus told Simon. "From now on you’ll be fishing for people!" So they dragged the boats onto the shore, left everything, and followed Jesus.
One day Jesus said to his disciples, "Let’s cross over to the other side of the lake." So they got into a boat and set off. As they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep, and a storm came down on the lake. The boat began filling with water and they were in danger of sinking. They went over to Jesus and woke him up. "Master, master, we’re going to drown!" they said. Jesus woke up and commanded the wind and the rough waves to stop. They stopped, and all was calm.
"Where is your trust?" he asked them. Terrified and amazed, they said to each other, "So who is this? He gives commands to the winds and the water, and they obey him!"
One day Jesus said to his disciples, "Let’s cross over to the other side of the lake." So they got into a boat and set off. As they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep, and a storm came down on the lake. The boat began filling with water and they were in danger of sinking. They went over to Jesus and woke him up. "Master, master, we’re going to drown!" they said. Jesus woke up and commanded the wind and the rough waves to stop. They stopped, and all was calm.
"Where is your trust?" he asked them. Terrified and amazed, they said to each other, "So who is this? He gives commands to the winds and the water, and they obey him!"
They sailed across to the Gerasene region that lies opposite Galilee.
Late in the day, the twelve disciples came to him and said, "You should send the crowd away now so they can go to the villages and farms nearby and find a place to stay and food to eat—there’s nothing here where we are."
"You give them something to eat!" said Jesus.
"All we have here are five loaves and two fish—unless you want us to go and buy food for everyone," they said. There were about five thousand men present.
"Sit them down in groups of about fifty," he told his disciples. The disciples did so, and everybody sat down. Jesus picked up the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed the food and broke it into pieces. He kept on giving the food to the disciples to share with the people. Everybody ate until they were full, and then twelve baskets of leftovers were collected.
Two days later a wedding was held at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. The wine ran out, so Jesus' mother told him, "They don’t have any more wine."
"Mother, why should you involve me? My time hasn’t come yet," he replied.
His mother told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."
Standing nearby were six stone jars used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each one holding twenty to thirty gallons. "Fill the jars with water," Jesus told them. So they filled them right up. Then he told them, "Pour some out, and take it to the master of ceremonies." So they took him some. The master of ceremonies didn’t know where it had come from, only the servants knew. But when he tasted the water that had been turned to wine, he called the bridegroom over.
"Everyone serves out the best wine first," he told him, "and once people have had plenty to drink, then they put out the cheaper wine. But you have kept the best wine till last!" This was the very first of Jesus' miraculous signs, and was performed in Cana of Galilee. Here he revealed his glory, and his disciples put their trust in him.
He only asked this to see how Philip would respond, because Jesus already knew what he was going to do.
"Two hundred silver coins. One denarius was worth a day’s wage. wouldn’t buy enough bread to give everyone only a little," Philip replied.
One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up. "There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what good is that when there are so many people?"
"Have everybody sit down," Jesus said. There was plenty of grass there, so they all sat down, the men numbering around five thousand. Jesus took the bread, gave thanks, and had it handed out to the people as they sat there. Then he did the same with the fishes, making sure the people had as much as they wanted. Once they were all full, he said to his disciples, "Collect what’s left over so nothing is wasted." So they collected and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves the people had eaten.
When they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea, coming towards the boat. They were very frightened. "Don’t be afraid!" he told them. "It’s me." Then they gladly took him into the boat, and immediately they reached the shore where they were going.
Later Jesus appeared again to the disciples by the Sea of Galilee. This is how it happened. Simon Peter, Thomas the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and Zebedee’s sons, and two other disciples were together.
"I’m going fishing," Simon Peter said to them. "We’ll come with you," they replied. So they left and went out in the boat, but all night they caught nothing.
When dawn came Jesus was standing on the shore, but the disciples didn’t know it was him. Jesus called to them, "My friends, haven’t you caught anything?"
"No," they replied.
"Throw the net out on the right side of the boat, and you’ll find some," he told them. So they threw out the net, and they weren’t able to haul it in because it had so many fish. The disciple Jesus loved said to Peter, "It’s the Lord." When Peter heard it was the Lord, he put some clothes on because he was undressed, and jumped into the sea. The other disciples followed in the boat, pulling the net full of fish, because they were not far from the shore, only about a hundred yards. Once they’d landed they saw a fire with fish cooking on it, and some bread.
Jesus told them, "Bring some of the fish you’ve just caught." Simon Peter went aboard and pulled the net full of fish ashore. There were 153 large fish, yet even so the net hadn’t torn.
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Jesus expulsou demônios com autoridade. Os espíritos impuros não resistiam à sua palavra e saíam imediatamente.
When Jesus entered Capernaum, a centurion came up to him, begging for help, "Lord, my servant is at home, lying down, unable to move. He’s in terrible agony."
"I will come and heal him," Jesus replied.
The centurion answered, "Lord, I don’t merit a visit to my home. Just say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I am myself under the authority of superiors, while I also have soldiers under my command. I command one, ‘Go!’ and he goes. I command another, ‘Come!’ and he comes. I tell my servant, ‘Do this!’ and he does it."
When Jesus heard what he said, he was astonished. He told those who were following him, "I tell you the truth, I haven’t found this kind of trust anywhere in Israel. I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown out into utter darkness where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth."
Then Jesus told the centurion, "Go home. Because you trusted that it would happen, what you asked for has been done." The servant was healed right away.
When he arrived on the other side, in the region of the Gadarenes, two demon-possessed men came out of the graveyard to meet him. They were so dangerous that nobody dared to travel that way. They shouted out, "What have you got to do with us, you Son of God? Have you come to torture us before our time?"
In the distance a large herd of pigs was feeding. The demons pleaded with him, "If you’re going to drive us out, send us into the herd of pigs."
"Go!" said Jesus. The demons left the men and went into the pigs. The whole herd ran down the steep hillside into the sea and drowned. The pig herders ran away. They went to the town and told the people there everything that had taken place, and what had happened to the demon-possessed men. The whole town came out to meet Jesus. When they found him, they begged him to leave their district.
As Jesus and his disciples were leaving, a man was brought to him who was dumb and demon-possessed. Once the demon had been thrown out of him, the dumb man spoke, and the crowds were amazed. "Nothing ever happened like this before in Israel," they said.
Then a man was brought to Jesus who was demon-possessed and blind and dumb. Jesus healed him, so that the dumb man could speak and see.
Jesus left and went to the region of Tyre and Sidon. A Canaanite woman from that area came, shouting out, "Lord, son of David! Please have mercy on me, because my daughter is suffering badly because she’s possessed by a demon!" But Jesus didn’t reply at all. His disciples came to him and told him, "Tell her to stop following us. All her shouting is really annoying!"
"I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel," Jesus said to the woman. But the woman came and kneeled before him, and said, "Lord, please help me!"
"It’s not right to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs," Jesus told her.
"Yes, Lord, but even dogs are allowed to eat crumbs that fall from their master’s table," she replied.
"You have great trust in me," Jesus answered. "Your wish is granted!" And her daughter was healed immediately.
When they approached the crowd, a man came to Jesus, and kneeled before him. "Lord, please have mercy on my son," he said. "He loses his mind and suffers such terrible fits that he often falls in the fire or into water. I brought him to your disciples but they couldn’t heal him."
"You people refuse to trust me, and are so corrupt!" Jesus responded. "How long do I have to remain here with you? How long do I have to put up with you? Bring him here to me!" Jesus confronted the demon and it left the boy, and he was healed straight away.
Suddenly, right there in the synagogue, a man with an evil spirit started shouting out, "Jesus of Nazareth, why are you bothering us? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are! You’re God’s Holy One!"
Jesus interrupted the evil spirit, telling him, "Be quiet! Come out of him."
The evil spirit screamed, threw the man into convulsions, and came out of him.
They arrived on the other side of the lake in the region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus got out of the boat a man with an evil spirit came from the graveyard to meet him. This man lived among the tombs, and it had been impossible to tie him up any longer, even with a chain. He had often been tied up with chains and shackles, but he simply tore the chains apart and broke the shackles into pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Day and night he was always shouting out among the tombs and in the hills nearby, cutting himself with sharp stones.
Seeing Jesus from a distance he ran and kneeled in front of him. In a loud voice he cried out, "What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of Almighty God? Swear by God that you won’t torture me!" For Jesus had already told the evil spirit to leave the man.
Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?"
"My name is Legion, because we are many!" he replied. He also repeatedly pleaded with Jesus not to send them a long way away.
A large herd of pigs was feeding on the hillside nearby. The evil spirits pleaded with him, "Send us to the pigs so we can enter them." Jesus allowed them to do this. The evil spirits left the man and went into the pigs. The whole herd, about two thousand, rushed down the steep cliff into the sea and drowned. The pig-keepers ran away, and spread the news all over town and in the countryside. People came out to see what had happened.
But you say that if someone tells their father or mother, ‘Anything you might have received from me is now Corban,’ (that means dedicated to God), then you don’t permit them to do anything further for their mother or father. By means of this tradition of yours that you pass down, you make God’s word null and void. You do many other things like this."
Jesus called the crowd to him again and told them, "Please, everyone listen to me and understand. It’s not what’s on the outside and goes into you that makes you unclean. It’s what comes out that makes you unclean."
Then Jesus left and went to the region of Tyre. He didn’t want anyone to know he was staying in a house there, but he couldn’t keep it a secret. As soon as a woman whose little daughter had an evil spirit heard about him, she came and fell at his feet. The woman was Greek, born in Syrophoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive out the demon from her daughter.
"First let the children eat until they’re full," Jesus replied. "It’s not right to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs."
"True, sir," she said, "but even the dogs under the table eat the scraps the children leave."
Jesus told her, "For such an answer you may go—the demon has left your daughter." She went home and found the child lying on the bed, the demon gone.
One of the people in the crowd answered, "Rabbi, I brought my son to you. He has an evil spirit that prevents him speaking. Whenever he has a seizure it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and he becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive it out of him, but they couldn’t do it."
"You unbelieving people!" Jesus responded. "How long must I remain here with you? How long do I have to put up with you? Bring him over here to me!"
So they brought him to Jesus. When the evil spirit saw Jesus it immediately sent the boy into convulsions and threw him on the ground, where he rolled around, foaming at the mouth.
"How long has he had this?" Jesus asked the boy’s father.
"Since he was small," the father replied. "Often it throws him into the fire to burn him to death, or throws him into water to drown him. Please have mercy on us and help, if you can."
"Why do you say, ‘if you can?’" replied Jesus. "Whoever trusts has every power!"
"I do trust in you," the man shouted out right away. "Help me not to distrust you."
Jesus, seeing that the crowd was closing in, commanded the evil spirit, "Spirit that causes deafness and dumbness, I order you to come out of him and never return."
The spirit screamed and threw the boy into severe convulsions. Then the spirit came out of the boy and left him for dead—to the extent that many of the people said, "He’s dead."
But Jesus took the boy by the hand and helped him up, and he got to his feet.
Leaving the synagogue, Jesus went to Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was sick with a high fever and those who were there asked Jesus to help. Jesus went and stood over her. He told the fever to leave her—which it did. She got up right away and prepared a meal for them.
When Jesus stepped out of the boat onto the shore, a demon-possessed man from the town came to meet him. For a long time he hadn’t worn any clothes or lived in a house. He lived in the tombs. When he saw Jesus he screamed, fell down at Jesus' feet, and asked in a loud voice, "What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? Please don’t torture me, I beg you!" For Jesus had already commanded the evil spirit to leave the man. It had often seized him, and despite being tied down with chains and shackles, and placed under guard, he would break the chains apart and would be driven by the demon into the desert areas.
"What is your name?" Jesus asked him. "Legion," he replied, for many demons had entered him. They begged Jesus not to order them to go into the Abyss. There was a large herd of pigs feeding on the nearby hillside, and the demons begged him to be allowed to go into the pigs. Jesus gave them permission, so the demons left the man and entered the pigs. The herd rushed down the steep slope into the lake and drowned.
When the pig-keepers saw what had happened they ran off and spread the news through the town and the countryside. The people went out to see what had happened. When they came to Jesus they found the man freed from the demons. He was sitting there at Jesus' feet, wearing clothes and in his right mind; and they became scared.
I tell you the truth, some standing here won’t taste death until they see the kingdom of God."
About eight days later, after he had told them this, Jesus took Peter, John, and James with him and went up a mountain to pray. While he was praying, his face changed in appearance, and his clothing became a dazzling white. Two men appeared in brilliant glory. They were Moses and Elijah, and they began to talk with Jesus. They spoke about his death, which would soon happen in Jerusalem.
Peter and the others were asleep. When they woke up they saw Jesus in his glory, and the two men standing next to him. As the two men were about to leave, Peter said to Jesus, "Master, it’s great to be here. Let’s make some shelters: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah." He really didn’t know what he was saying.
A man in the crowd called out, "Teacher, please look at my son. He’s my only child. A spirit possesses him and he screams immediately. It sends him into convulsions and makes him foam at the mouth. It hardly ever leaves him alone and it causes him a lot of pain. I begged your disciples to drive it out, but they couldn’t."
"What an unbelieving and corrupt people you are! How long do I have to remain here with you, and put up with you?" said Jesus. "Bring your son here." Even as the boy came over, the demon sent him into convulsions, throwing him to the ground. But Jesus intervened, rebuking the evil spirit and healing the boy, and then gave him back to his father. Everyone was amazed at this demonstration of God’s power. However, even though everyone was amazed by all he did, Jesus warned his disciples,
Jesus was driving out a demon that had made a man dumb. When the demon had left, the man who was dumb spoke, and the crowds were amazed.
And one of them struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear.
"Stop! No more of this!" said Jesus. He touched the man’s ear and healed him.
After the messengers from John had left, Jesus began telling the crowd, "About John: what did you expect to see when you went out to meet him in the desert? Some reed blown about by the wind? Did you come looking for a man dressed in fine clothes? No, those who have stylish clothes and live in luxury are found in palaces. Were you looking for a prophet? Yes he is, and I’m telling you, he’s much more than a prophet.
It was written about him in Scripture: ‘Look, I’m sending my messenger to go before you to prepare your way.’ I tell you, no one born of women is greater than John, but even the most unimportant person in God’s kingdom is greater than he is!" When they heard him, all of them—even the tax collectors—followed what God said was good and right, for they had been baptized by John. But the Pharisees and the religious teachers rejected what God wanted them to do, for they had refused to be baptized by John.