Milagres
Os milagres manifestam o poder soberano de Deus. Desde a criação até os sinais de Jesus e dos apóstolos, Deus intervém sobrenaturalmente na história para revelar sua glória e amor.
O Deus dos milagres
Para Deus nada é impossível. Ele abriu o mar, fez cair fogo do céu e ressuscitou mortos. Seu poder não tem limites.
When Jesus heard us say that, he looked intently at us, and then he said to us, "Yes, it is impossible for people to save themselves. But God can save them, because God is able to do anything!"
When Jesus heard us say that, he looked intently at us, and then he said to us, "Yes, it is impossible for people to save themselves. But God can save them, because God is able to do anything!"
You should not be surprised at that, because God can do everything!"
"I am Yahweh, the God who rules all the people in the world. There is absolutely nothing [RHQ] that is too difficult for me to do.
That evening, Moses/I stretched out his/my hand toward the sea. Then Yahweh sent a strong wind from the east. It blew all night and pushed the water apart, and it caused the ground between the water to dry up. Then we Israeli people went on the dry land in the middle of the sea. The water was like a wall on each side of us, on the right side and on the left side.
But then, Yahweh, I recall/remember your great deeds;
I remember the wonderful things that you did in the past.
I meditate on all that you have done,
and I think about your mighty acts.
You are God, the one who performs miracles;
you showed to people of many people-groups that you are powerful.
Milagres pela fé
Se tiverdes fé como um grão de mostarda, movereis montanhas. A fé é a chave que acessa o poder miraculoso de Deus.
He answered us, "It is because you did not believe very much in God’s power. Think about this: Mustard seeds are very small, but in this area they grow and produce large [MET] plants. Similarly, if your faith grows until you truly believe that God will do what you ask him to, you will be able to do anything [LIT]! You could even say to this hill, ‘Move from here to there!’ and it would go where you told it to go."
Jesus said to us, "Think about this: If you believe that God has power to do what you ask him to and you do not doubt that, you will be able to do things like what I have done to this fig tree. You will even be able to do marvelous deeds like saying to a nearby hill, ‘Uproot yourself and throw yourself into the sea’, and it will happen!
Jesus exclaimed to him, "Do not say [RHQ] ‘If you can’, for God/I can do anything for people who believe in him/me!"
Jesus looked at them and then he said, "Yes, it is impossible for people to save themselves! But God certainly can save them, because God can do anything!"
But Jesus said, "It is impossible for people to save themselves. But God can save them, because God can do anything!"
Jesus did not perform many miracles there because the people did not believe that he was the Messiah.
Sinais e prodígios
Os apóstolos realizaram sinais e maravilhas em nome de Jesus. Os dons do Espírito incluem a operação de milagres e a fé sobrenatural.
Peter said, "You killed Jesus but God caused him to live again."
Peter continued, "My fellow Israelites, listen to me! When Jesus from Nazareth town lived among you, God proved to you that he had sent him by enabling him to do many amazing miracles. You yourselves know that this is true.
God shook the place where they were, and his Spirit enabled them to speak his words boldly.
When the believers had finished praying, the place where they were meeting shook. All of them were ◄completely controlled/empowered► by the Holy Spirit {the Holy Spirit ◄completely controlled/empowered► all of them}, with the result that they began to speak boldly the words that God told them to speak.
God enabled Paul to do amazing miracles.
Also, God gave Paul the power [MTY] to do amazing miracles. If those who were sick could not come to Paul, handkerchiefs or aprons that Paul had touched would be taken and placed on the sick people {others would take and place on the sick people handkerchiefs or aprons that Paul had touched}. As a result, those sick people would become well, and evil spirits that troubled people would leave.
You should have done that, because when I was with you I repeatedly did the things that showed you that I am truly an apostle, such as performing many [DOU] miracles.
God has placed apostles in our congregations. Apostles are first in rank. Next in rank are those who speak messages which come directly from God. Next in rank are those who teach spiritual truth. Then there are those who have the power to work miracles, those who have the ability to heal sick people, those who have the ability to help others, those who have the ability to govern the affairs of the congregation, and those who have the ability to speak messages in languages [MTY] that they have not learned.
To some, the Spirit gives the ability to speak very wise messages. To others, the same Spirit gives the ability to know things that he reveals to them. To others, the same Spirit gives the ability to believe that God will work miracles. To others, the Spirit gives the ability to heal sick people. To others, he gives the power to perform miracles. To others, he gives the ability to speak messages that come directly from God. To others, he gives the ability to tell if a message is really from God or not. To others he gives the ability to speak messages in languages [MTY] that they have not learned. To others, he gives the ability to tell the meaning of those messages [MTY].
Jesus said, "Do not tell him not to do that! For no one will speak evilly about me just after he performs a miracle while saying that I have told him to do it. Furthermore, those who are not opposing us are trying to achieve the same goals that we are.
Milagres de cura e provisão
A oração da fé salvará o enfermo. Deus provê, cura e intervém quando clamamos a Ele com fé genuína.
And if they truly trust in the Lord when they pray [PRS], the sick person will be healed. The Lord will heal him. And if that person has sinned ◄in a way that caused him to be/and because of that he became► sick, if he ◄confesses what he did/says that he did what is wrong►, he will be forgiven {the Lord will forgive him}. So, because the Lord is able to heal the sick and to forgive sins, tell each other the sinful things that you have done, and pray for each other in order that you may be healed {that God may heal you} physically and spiritually. If righteous people pray and ask fervently for God to do something, God will certainly do it in a powerful way.
Although the prophet Elijah was ◄an ordinary person/just a human being► like us, he earnestly prayed that it would not rain. As a result, it did not rain for three and a half years. Then he prayed again, asking God to send rain, and as a result God [MTY] sent rain, and plants grew and produced crops again.
Then he took the five small loaves and the two fish. He looked up towards heaven and thanked God for them. Then he broke them into pieces and gave them to the disciples so that they would distribute them to the crowd. All the people in the crowd ate until they all had enough to eat. Then the disciples collected twelve baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over!
Jesus told a synagogue leader that he was being hypocritical regarding working on the Sabbath.
One ◄Sabbath/Jewish day of rest►, Jesus was teaching people in one of the Jewish meeting places. There was a woman there whom an evil spirit [MTY] had crippled for 18 years. She was always bent over; she could not stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over to him. He said to her, "Woman, I am freeing you (sg) from your illness!" He put his hands on her. Immediately she stood up straight, and she praised God! But the man in charge ◄of the synagogue/of the meeting place► was angry because Jesus had healed her ◄on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day►. He considered that healing was doing work. So he said to the people, "There are six days each week in which our Jewish laws permit people to work. If you need healing, those are the days to come ◄to the synagogue/to the meeting place► and be healed. Do not come on our Jewish day of rest!" Then the Lord replied to him, "You (sg) and your fellow religious leaders are hypocrites! ◄On the Sabbath/On our Jewish day of rest►, just like on every other day, ◄each of you unties his ox or donkey, and then leads it from the food trough to where it can drink water./does not each of you untie his ox or donkey, and then lead it from the food trough to where it can drink water?► [RHQ] That is work, too! This woman is more important than an animal; she is a Jew, descended from Abraham! But Satan has kept her [MET] crippled for 18 years, as though he had tied her up and not let her escape! So ◄it is certainly right that she be freed {that I free her}, even if this is a Sabbath day!/was it not right that she be freed {that I free her}, even if this is a Jewish rest day?► [RHQ]" After Jesus said that, all the people there who opposed him were ashamed. But all the other people there were happy about all the wonderful things he was doing.
That was the first miracle that Jesus did. He did it in Cana town, in Galilee district. By doing it he showed how awesome he is, and as a result, we his disciples believed that he truly was the Messiah.
After the people saw that miracle that Jesus had performed, many of them started to say, "Surely this is the prophet like Moses that God promised to send to the world!"
Jesus said to him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed that about me. But God is truly pleased with those who have believed that about me, even though they have not seen me!"
John stated the purpose of this book.
We disciples saw Jesus perform many other miracles, but I have not written about them in this book. But these that I have written about, I have written about them in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, ◄the Son of God/the man who is also God►, and in order that you may have eternal life by trusting ◄in him/in what he has done for you► [MTY].
Then I also went inside. I saw those things and I believed that Jesus had truly become alive again. Before this happened, we did not understand from what the prophets had written in the Scriptures, that he had to become alive again after he died.
Discernimento nos sinais
A Bíblia alerta contra falsos milagres e sinais enganosos. Devemos provar os espíritos e não seguir sinais que desviam de Deus.
Moses warned them against idolatry
"Possibly there will be people among you who say that they are prophets. They may say that they are able to interpret the meaning of dreams or perform various kinds of miracles [DOU]. They will say those things in order to induce/persuade you to worship gods that you have never known about before. But even if what they predict happens, do not pay attention to what they say. Yahweh our God will be testing you to find out if you love him with all your inner being. You must conduct your lives as Yahweh our God wants you to, and you must revere him, and do what he tells you to do [MTY], and worship only him, and ◄be faithful to/have a close relationship with► him.
I saw evil spirits that looked like frogs. One came out of the mouth of the dragon, one from the mouth of the beast, and one from the mouth of the false prophet. Those spirits were demons who were able to perform miracles. They went out to the rulers of the whole world, in order to gather their armies [SYN] together to the battle that they will fight on the wonderful day when Almighty God punishes his enemies [MTY].
Jesus told the Jewish leaders that the only miracle that they would see him do would be one like God did for Jonah.
Then some of the Pharisees and men who taught the Jewish laws responded to what Jesus was teaching by saying to him, "Teacher, we want to see you perform a miracle that would prove to us that God sent you." Then Jesus said to them, "You people have already seen me perform miracles, but you are evil, and you do not faithfully worship God [MET]! You want me to perform a miracle that would prove to you that God sent me, but God will enable you to see only one miracle. It will be like what happened to Jonah the prophet [MET]. Jonah was in the stomach of a huge fish for three days and nights before God caused him to live again. Similarly, for three days and nights I, the one who came from heaven, will be in a place where dead people are, and then God will cause me to live again.
Jesus explained why the people of Corazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum would be punished more severely than the people of Tyre, Sidon, and Sodom.
The people who lived in the towns [MTY] in the area where Jesus was saw him perform many miracles. But they did not turn away from their sinful behavior. So Jesus began to reproach them by saying to them, "You people who live in Chorazin city [MTY] and you people who live in Bethsaida city [MTY] will suffer terribly in hell! I did great miracles in your cities, but you did not turn from your sinful behavior. If the miracles that I performed in your cities had been done in the ancient cities of Tyre and Sidon, the wicked people who lived there long ago would have sat in ashes, wearing coarse cloth to show that they were sorry for their sins. So note this: God will punish the wicked people who lived in the cities of Tyre and Sidon [MTY], but he will punish you even more severely on the final day when he judges all people. also have something to say to you people who live in Capernaum city [MTY]. ◄Do not think that you will be honored {that God will honor you} in heaven!/Do you think that you will be honored {that God will honor you} in heaven?► [RHQ] That will not happen! On the contrary, after you die, you will be sent {God will send you} down into the place where sinful people will be punished {he will punish sinful people} forever. God destroyed the ancient city of Sodom because the people who lived in that city were extremely wicked. If I had performed in Sodom the miracles that I performed in your city, the people there would have turned away from their wicked behavior and their city [MET] would still exist now [MTY]. But you, although I did miracles in your city, you did not turn from your wicked behavior. So note this: God will punish the people who lived in Sodom city [MTY], but he will punish you even more severely on the final day when he judges all people."
A criação como milagre
O próprio corpo humano é milagre de Deus. Toda a criação testifica do poder e da sabedoria do Criador.
You created all the parts of my body;
you put the parts of my body together when I was still in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because you made my body in a very awesome and wonderful way.
Everything that you do is amazing!
I know that very well.
A psalm written by David for the choir director, to be sung using the tune ‘The death of my son’
Yahweh, I will praise you with all of my inner being.
I will tell others about all the wonderful things that you have done.
Yahweh himself will do something for you to prove that he will help/protect you. Listen to this: A young woman will become pregnant and give birth to a son. She will name him Immanuel, which means ‘God is with us’.
All this happened as a result of what the Lord told the prophet Isaiah to write long ago about what was going to happen. This is what Isaiah wrote: "Listen, a virgin will become pregnant and will give birth to a son. They will call him Emmanuel." Emmanuel means ‘God is with us’.
They saw him walking on the water, but they thought that he was a ghost. They screamed because they all were terrified when they saw him. But he talked to them. He said to them, "Be calm! Do not be afraid, because it is I!"
But when Jesus heard that, he said to Jairus, "Do not think that there is nothing more that can be done. Just believe that I can help her. If you(sg) do that, she will live again."
As they came near to Jerusalem, on the road that descends from Olive Tree Hill, the whole crowd of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God loudly for all the great miracles that they had seen Jesus do. They were saying things like, "May the Lord God bless our king who comes representing [MTY] him!" "May there be peace between God in heaven and us his people!" "May everyone praise God!"
After he said that, he was taken {God took him} up to heaven, while they were watching. He went up into a cloud [PRS], which prevented them from seeing him any more.
The light was so bright that I fell to the ground. Then I heard the voice of someone speaking to me from up in the sky. The one who was speaking to me said, ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you (sg) do things to harm me?’
Yahweh sent locusts to destroy the rest of the Egyptians’ crops
Then Yahweh said to Moses/me, "Go to the king again. I have made him and his officials stubborn [IDM]. I have done that in order that I would have a good reason to perform all these plagues among them, and also in order that you would be able to tell your children and your grandchildren how I caused the Egyptians to act very foolishly when I performed all these miracles. Then all of you will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do."