Old Testament life Miracles
Before Elijah raised the widow’s son, the widow connected her son’s death with this personal issue.
What is her sin/iniquity?
Jesus raised Jairus’ daughter privately, allowing only Peter, James, John, and these two family members into the room.
Who are her father and mother?
John 1:4 says life was in Christ, and that life was this to humanity.
What is the light of men?
This woman was among the first to encounter the risen Christ and was told not to cling to Him.
Who is Mary Magdalene?
1 Corinthians 15 calls death this kind of enemy.
What is the last enemy?
Elijah stretched himself upon the dead child this number of times before the child revived.
What is three times?
At Nain, Jesus raised a dead man who is described with this important family detail, making the miracle also an act of compassion.
What is the only son of his mother, and she was a widow?
In John 5, Jesus says the Father has life in Himself and has granted the Son to have this also.
What is life in Himself?
These two disciples encountered the risen Jesus while walking away from Jerusalem.
Who are the two disciples on the road to Emmaus?
In 1 Thessalonians 4, the dead in Christ rise before this group is caught up.
Who are those who are alive and remain?
When Elisha raised the Shunammite’s son, this servant went ahead first with Elisha’s staff, but the child did not wake.
Who is Gehazi?
Jesus delayed going to Lazarus so that the disciples might believe, revealing that divine delay is not the same as this.
What is divine denial/absence/lack of love?
John 10 contrasts the thief’s purpose with Jesus’ purpose: the thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but Jesus comes to give this.
What is abundant life?
Thomas moved from doubt to confession when he saw Jesus’ wounds and called Him by this title.
What is “My Lord and my God”?
Revelation 20 calls the lake of fire by this name.
What is the second death?
The Shunammite woman’s faith is seen in the phrase she repeatedly used, even while her son was dead.
What is “It is well”?
Before Lazarus was raised, Jesus asked Martha if she believed this claim about Himself.
What is “I am the resurrection, and the life”?
In John 11, Jesus does not merely say He can perform resurrection; He identifies Himself as this.
What is the resurrection and the life?
In 1 Corinthians 15, Paul argues that if Christ is not risen, then Christian preaching and faith are both this.
What is vain/empty?
Revelation 21:4 says death will be gone along with sorrow, crying, and this.
What is pain?
A dead man revived after touching Elisha’s bones, showing that God’s power was not limited by the prophet’s physical death.
What is 2 Kings 13?
Jesus wept before raising Lazarus, showing that resurrection power does not cancel this part of God’s character.
compassion/sympathy/grief with humanity?
The Bible’s deeper issue is not only that humans die physically, but that sin has separated them from this.
What is the life of God/source of life?
Paul says Christ was seen by over this number of brethren at once.
What is over five hundred?
The final Bible picture is not souls escaping earth, but God restoring life through this renewed reality
What is the new heaven and new earth?