# 81 Signs and Wonders

Joh 4:46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

 48 Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe."

A nobleman with a son near death, travels 10 miles because he hears Jesus, the miracle worker, is in Cana. He goes to Jesus and simply asks if He would return with him to his son and heal him.

It appears that Jesus responds rather brusquely to the nobleman’s plea, but I wonder if He wasn’t just stating a fact. Signs and wonders go a long way in convincing us of the deity of Christ. This simple fact is the backbone of the Gospel of John! Let me explain.

Jesus would go on to heal the nobleman’s son and John included it as one of the seven miracles in his gospel. Miracles that were included so that you and I, and all who will read this Gospel would believe that Jesus is the Christ! Joh 20:30,31 says, “And truly Jesus did many other signs in the presence of His disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name.

We are no different than that nobleman or others in Galilee. We want concrete evidence just as Thomas did when he placed his hands in Jesus’ wounds. We want miracles! We want healings! We want answered prayers! We want Jesus to prove He is real! Show us that You are supernatural! Demonstrate Your deity in a tangible way, and many times He does.

He did then as it says in Joh 21:25, “And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written. Amen.”

And He does now! How many books do you suppose Jesus could fill today with all the miracles and answered prayers He has brought forth since the days of John? He still answers the prayers of the nobleman and the common man, the believer and the unbeliever because He knows that unless the Galileans and Thomas’s of this world see signs and wonders, they will by no means believe!

Jesus used signs and wonders to convince people of His deity and the Apostles used them as well as they went into the world with the gospel message! Ac 14:3 reminds us, “Therefore they stayed there a long time, speaking boldly in the Lord, who was bearing witness to the word of His grace, granting signs and wonders to be done by their hands”

I’m afraid most people are afraid of signs and wonders. They have a tendency to mistrust anything supernatural. Others over-emphasize miracles and imply a lack of faith in those who don’t emphasize them. Let’s find some middle ground here!

My Bible makes room for both as Jesus spoke to the doubtful Thomas and said, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed." (John 20:29)

The end result is believers and that’s what matter most to God!