How Many Miracles Of Jesus Are In Mark? – Quickly answered – Yeshuah Boyton

How Many Miracles Of Jesus Are In Mark? – Quickly answered

Written by Yeshuah Boyton in Lists of Miracles,Miracles

Open Bible with the Gospel of St. Mark in the background, in the foreground it says in white letters, how many miracles are in mark?

There is a lot of different information about the number of miracles in the gospels, particularly for the gospel of Mark; therefore, I wanted to share my findings in this article to give you the best resource I can give you.

In total, there are 22 miracles recorded in the gospel of Mark. They consist of 11 healings, six wondrous miracles, four exorcisms, and one passage speaks of Jesus raising the dead. It is said, Mark dedicates more of his account to Jesus’ miracles than the other gospel writers do.

Below, I want to go into more detail about the miracle accounts in the gospel of Mark, share why I come up with the number 22, and answer related questions.

How many miracles are in the Gospel of Mark?

There are a total of 22 miracle accounts recorded in the gospel of Mark. The number of miracles might vary because it depends on what one would claim as a miracle. 

I included all records of Jesus’ divine wonders, even the mass healings.

In the next section, you will see how many miracles I personally assigned to four main categories. As mentioned above, the 22 miracles recorded in the gospel of Mark are 11 healings, four exorcisms, six wondrous miracles, and one raising the dead.

I put together a couple of helpful articles in my research on Jesus’ miracles in the four gospels. 

They’ll give you a good overview and might present a helpful resource for your Bible study.

This article is just one of ten or so. I list the most relevant articles here:

man sits in an arm chair in thinking pose with his bible opened in front of him laying on a coffee table.
Does this staged photo of me look like I’m in deep contemplation about miracles in the Bible?

What miracles are in Mark?

I sorted all 22 accounts of Jesus’ miracles into four categories: healings, exorcisms, raising the dead, and other wondrous miracles. Obviously, one could assign more or different groups, but I believe these four give you a good overview. 

The accounts are listed out of order but include their Bible reference. If you want to see them all in order, you can use this helpful overview here.

Again, not all accounts speak of single miracles. Some passages talk about mass healings or mass exorcisms. But I still score the single passage as only one miracle account.

11 healings in the gospel of Mark:

  1. Jesus heals the fever of Peter’s mother-in-law (Mark 1:29-31)
  2. Jesus heals many sick and oppressed in Capernaum (Mark 1:32-34)
  3. Jesus cleanses a man with leprosy (Mark 1:40-45)
  4. Jesus heals a paralytic let down through a roof (Mark 2:1-12)
  5. Jesus heals a man’s withered hand on the Sabbath (Mark 3:1-6)
  6. Jesus heals a great multitude of people (Mark 3:7-12)
  7. Jesus heals a woman with an issue of blood (Mark 5:25-34)
  8. Many sick are healed by touching Jesus’ garment (Mark 6:53-56)
  9. Jesus heals a deaf and mute man (Mark 7:31-37)
  10. Jesus heals a blind man at Bethsaida (Mark 8:22-26)
  11. Jesus restores sight to Bartimaeus in Jericho (Mark 10:46-52)

6 wondrous miracles in the gospel of Mark:

  1. Jesus Calms a Storm on the Sea (Mark 4:35-41)
  2. Jesus Feeds 5,000 Plus Women and Children (Mark 6:30-44)
  3. Jesus walks on water (Mark 6:45-52)
  4. Jesus feeds 4,000 plus women and children (Mark 8:1-13)
  5. Jesus transfigured on the mount (Mark 9:2-13)
  6. Jesus curses the fig tree (Mark 11:12-14,20)

4 exorcisms in the gospel of Mark:

  1. Jesus drives out an evil spirit in Capernaum (Mark 1:21-28)
  2. Jesus casts demons into a herd of pigs (Mark 5:1-20)
  3. A gentile woman’s demonized daughter is healed (Mark 7:24-30)
  4. Jesus heals a boy with an unclean spirit (Mark 9:14-29)

1 raising the dead in the gospel of Mark:

  1. Jesus raises Jairus’ daughter back to life (Mark 5:21-24, 35-43)
a woman looks inside a bible that is glowing
How cool would it be if our Bibles would glow like this when we opened them.

How many miracles are in the gospels?

In total, there are 42 miracles Jesus performed across all four gospels in the New Testament. These consist of 25 accounts of healings, eight recordings of exorcisms, ten wondrous miracles like the feeding of the 5000, and three raisings of the dead. Some of the accounts overlap between the categories.

You can see a comprehensive overview of all of Jesus’ miracles in chronological order in this article. Below I categorized them into the four previously mentioned groups.

25 healings across the four gospels:

  1. Jesus heals an official’s son at Capernaum (John 4:46-54)
  2. Jesus heals the fever of Peter’s mother-in-law (Matthew 8:14-15, Mark 1:29-31, Luke 4:38-39)
  3. Jesus heals many sick and oppressed in Capernaum (Matthew 8:16-17, Mark 1:32-34, Luke 4:40-41)
  4. Jesus heals the sick and demon-possessed (Matthew 4:23-25)
  5. Jesus cleanses a man with leprosy (Matthew 8:1-4, Mark 1:40-45, Luke 5:12-16)
  6. Jesus heals a paralytic let down through a roof (Matthew 9:1-8, Mark 2:1-12, Luke 5:17-26)
  7. Jesus heals a man at Bethesda (John 5:1-15)
  8. Jesus heals a man’s withered hand on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:9-14, Mark 3:1-6, Luke 6:6-11)
  9. Jesus heals a great multitude of people (Matthew 12:15, Luke 3:7-12)
  10. Jesus heals a centurion’s slave in Capernaum (Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 7:1-10)
  11. Jesus heals a blind, mute, demon-possessed man (Matthew 12:22-23)
  12. Jesus heals an 18-year long crippled woman (Luke 13:10-17)
  13. Jesus heals a woman with an issue of blood (Matthew 9:20-22, Mark 5:25-34, Luke 8:42-48)
  14. Jesus heals two blind men (Matthew 9:27-31)
  15. Jesus heals many people (Matthew 14:14, Mark 6:34, Luke 9:11)
  16. Many sick are healed by touching Jesus’ garment (Matthew 14:34-36, Mark 6:53-56)
  17. A gentile woman’s demonized daughter is healed (Matthew 15:21-28, Mark 7:24-30)
  18. Jesus heals a deaf and mute man (Mark 7:31-37)
  19. Jesus heals a blind man at Bethsaida (Mark 8:22-26)
  20. Jesus heals a boy with an unclean spirit (Matthew 17:14-20, Mark 9:14-29, Luke 9:37-43)
  21. Jesus heals a man born blind (John 9:1-41)
  22. Jesus cleanses ten lepers (Luke 17:11-19)
  23. Jesus heals a man with dropsy on the Sabbath (Luke 14:1-6)
  24. Jesus restores sight to Bartimaeus in Jericho (Matthew 20:29-34, Mark 10:46-52, Luke 18:35-43)
  25. When being arrested Jesus heals a servant’s ear (Luke 22:50-51)

8 exorcisms across the four gospels:

  1. Jesus drives out an evil spirit in Capernaum (Mark 1:21-28, Luke 4:31-37)
  2. Jesus heals many sick and oppressed in Capernaum (Matthew 8:16-17, Mark 1:32-34, Luke 4:40-41)
  3. Jesus heals a blind, mute, demon-possessed man (Luke 11:14-23)
  4. Jesus casts demons into a herd of pigs (Matthew 8:28-34, Mark 5:1-20, Luke 8:26-39)
  5. Jesus heals a demon-possessed and mute man (Matthew 9:32-34)
  6. A gentile woman’s demonized daughter is healed (Matthew 15:21-28, Mark 7:24-30)
  7. Jesus heals the mute, blind, lame, and impaired (Matthew 15:29-31)
  8. Jesus heals a boy with an unclean spirit (Matthew 17:14-20, Mark 9:14-29, Luke 9:37-43)

10 wondrous miracles across the four gospels:

  1. Turning water into wine at the wedding in Cana (John 2:1-11)
  2. Wondrous catch of fish on the lake of Gennesaret (Luke 5:1-11)
  3. Jesus calms the storm on the sea of Galilee (Matthew 8:23-27, Mark 4:35-41, Luke 8:22-25)
  4. Jesus feeds 5,000 plus women and children (Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6:30-44, Luke 9:10-17, John 6:1-15)
  5. Jesus walk on water (Matthew 14:22-33, Mark 6:45-52, John 6:16-21)
  6. Jesus feeds 4,000 plus women and children (Matthew 15:32-39, Mark 8:1-13)
  7. Jesus transfigured on the mount (Matthew 17:1-13, Mark 9:2-13, Luke 9:28-36)
  8. Temple tax miraculously found in a fish’s mouth (Matthew 17:24-27)
  9. Jesus curses the fig tree (Matthew 21:18-22, Mark 11:12-14, 20)
  10. Another miraculous catch of fish (John 21:4-11)

3 raising of the dead across the four gospels:

  1. Jesus raises a widow’s son from the dead in Nain (Luke 7:11-17)
  2. Jesus raises Jairus’ daughter back to life (Matthew 9:18, 23-26, Mark 5:21-24, 35-43, Luke 8:40-42, 49-56)
  3. Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead in Bethany (John 11:1-45)

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