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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Please, let me savor this moment. Please tell me that OBW is reading this! You sound like me and my teaching on Jesse's teaching 
I am just speaking from my own personal experience. It seems more accurate to look at those cases that happened to me than it is to talk about what people perceived 2,000 years ago. Without any doubt people spread the word that Jesus was a miracle man, He had trouble going into cities, and people heard of His fame. Other than that I have a sense that the turning of water to wine was done discreetly. As for the feeding of thousands, I find those accounts harder to discern. Were the crowds following Jesus because they were fed in the same way that people vote for a politician who promises them jobs? Or were they following Him because they saw the miracle of the feeding and realized He was an Apostle from God? It seems that the Lord's attitude concerning them was that their following him was not a matter of faith but of the flesh. |
Then why did Jesus work miracles?
Don't confuse following Jesus because he could work a miracle
for you with following Jesus because he could work miracles. The former means you could get an outward benefit, the latter means he was someone really special.
I fully believe he worked miracles in part so they would realize the latter.