{"id":8799,"date":"2020-08-02T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T16:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=8799"},"modified":"2020-08-02T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T16:36:32","slug":"matthew-1358-could-jesus-not-perform-miracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/matthew-1358-could-jesus-not-perform-miracles\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 13:58 &#8211; Could Jesus not perform miracles?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> Matthew writes, \u201cHe did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief\u201d (Mt. 13:58). Did Jesus need people to believe in him in order for him to perform miracles?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong> Jesus is not Tinkerbell, who needed people to believe in him in order to perform miracles. This passage states that Jesus did not do miracles\u2014not that he could not do them.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mark 6:5 states, \u201c[Jesus] could do no miracle.\u201d This shouldn\u2019t be taken as an absolute statement. Of course, this didn\u2019t stop Jesus from healing \u201ca few sick people.\u201d Moreover, Mark records other instances where Jesus performed miracles without any faith, including the feeding of the 5,000, the calming of the storm, and the healing of the demon possessed. Elsewhere in Matthew, Jesus calls his audience an \u201cunbelieving and perverted generation,\u201d and yet, he still heals them (Mt. 17:17).<\/p>\n<p>When Mark says that Jesus could not perform miracles, this was not because of his ability; but rather, this was due to his mission. It is the same logical impossibility of God saving humanity without the Cross (Mt. 26:39). Carson writes, \u201cThe \u2018could not\u2019 is related to Jesus\u2019 mission: just as Jesus could not turn stones to bread without violating his mission (Mt. 4:14), so he could not do miracles indiscriminately without turning his mission into a sideshow.\u201d[1]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[1] Carson, D. A. (1984). Matthew. In F. E. Gaebelein (Ed.), The Expositor\u2019s Bible Commentary: Matthew, Mark, Luke (Vol. 8, p. 336). Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Matthew writes, \u201cHe did not do many miracles there because of their unbelief\u201d (Mt. 13:58). Did Jesus need people to believe in him in order for him to perform miracles?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}