Jesus in the Quran holds one of the highest statures amongst the Prophets. Unlike other Prophets who performed miracles, Jesus himself was a miracle, as he was born of a virgin mother, and God describes him and his mother Mary as such:
\n\u201c\u2026and We made her (Mary) and her son (Jesus) a sign for the worlds.\u201d (Quran 21:91)<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, in the Quran, Jesus is described as having many miracles not bestowed upon other prophets. God says:
\n\u201cAnd We gave unto Jesus, son of Mary, clear miracles\u201d (Quran 2:87)<\/p>\n
The following is a brief description of the miracles performed by Jesus mentioned in the Quran.<\/p>\n
1. A Table Laden with Food
\nIn the fifth chapter of the Quran, \u201cThe Table Laden with Food\u201d \u2013 named after this miracle of Jesus, God narrates how the disciples of Jesus requested him to ask God to send down a table laden with food, and for it to be a special day of commemoration for them in the future.
\n\u201cWhen the disciples said: O Jesus, son of Mary! Is your Lord able to send down for us a table spread with food from heaven? He said: Observe your duty to God, if ye are true believers. They said: We desire to eat of it and our hearts be at rest, and that We may know that you have spoken truth to us, and that We may be witnesses thereof. Jesus, son of Mary, said: ‘O God, our Lord, send down for us a Table laden with food out of heaven, that shall be for us a recurring festival, the first and last of us, and a miracle from You. And provide us our sustenance, for You are the best of providers!\u201d (Quran 5:112-114)<\/p>\n
Since the occasion was to be \u201cfor us a recurring festival,\u201d it is likely the Last Supper,[1] also called the Lord’s Supper, Breaking of Bread, Eucharist, or Communion. The Eucharist has always been at the center of Christian worship. Encyclopedia Britannica says:
\n\u201cEucharist is a Christian sacrament commemorating the action of Jesus at his Last Supper with his disciples \u2026 The letters of Paul and the Acts of the Apostles make it clear that early Christianity believed that this institution included a mandate to continue the celebration\u2026 The Eucharist has formed a central rite of Christian worship.\u201d[2]<\/p>\n
2. While Still in the Cradle<\/p>\n
One of the miracles mentioned in the Quran, although not mentioned in the Bible, is that fact that Jesus, while still in the cradle, spoke out to protect his mother Mary from any accusations people may have placed on her due to having a child without a father. When she was approached about this strange incident after her childbirth, Mary merely pointed to Jesus, and he miraculously spoke, just as God had promised her upon annunciation.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe shall speak to people while still in the cradle, and in manhood, and he shall be from the righteous.\u201d (Quran 3:46)<\/p>\n
Jesus said to the people:
\n\u201cI am indeed a slave of God. He has given me the Book and made me a Prophet, and He has made me blessed wherever I may be. And He has enjoined upon me prayers, and to pay the alms, as long as I live and (He has made me) kind to my mother, and He has not made me insolent, unblessed. And may Peace be upon me the day I was born, and the day I die, and on the Day I shall be raised to life.\u201d (Quran 19:30-33)<\/p>\n
3. And It Becomes a Bird<\/p>\n
God mentions a miracle given to none other in the Quran but Jesus, one which is quite parallel to how God himself created Adam. This miracle was one which none can argue its greatness. God mentions in the Quran that Jesus says:
\n\u201cI create for you out of clay the likeness of a bird, then I breathe into it and it becomes a bird with God\u2019s permission.\u201d (Quran 3:49)
\nThis miracle is not found in the New Testament, but it is found in the non-canonical \u2018Infancy Gospel of Thomas,\u2019 \u201cWhen this boy, Jesus, was five years old, he was playing at the ford of a rushing stream\u2026 he then made soft clay and shaped it into twelve sparrows\u2026 but Jesus simply clapped his hands and shouted to the sparrows: \u201cBe off, fly away, and remember me, you who are now alive!\u201d And the sparrows took off and flew away noisily.\u201d (Infancy Gospel of Thomas:2)<\/p>\n
4. Healing the Blind and the Leper<\/p>\n
Similar to the New Testament[3], The Quran also mentions Jesus to a have healed the blind and lepers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also heal the blind and the leper.\u201d (Quran 3:49)<\/p>\n
The Jews during the time of Jesus were quite advanced in the science of medicine and were quite proud of their achievements. For this reason, miracles of this nature were given by God to Jesus, ones which the Jews could well understand that no force in nature could perform its like.<\/p>\n
5. The Resurrection of the Dead<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026and I bring to life the dead, by the permission of God.\u201d (Quran 3:49)<\/p>\n
This, like the creation of a bird, was a miracle of incomparable nature, one which should have caused the Jews to believe in the prophethood of Jesus without doubt. In the New Testament, we read three cases where Jesus brought the dead back to life by God\u2019s permission – the daughter of Jairus (Matt 9:18, 23; Mark 5:22, 35; Luke 8:40, 49), the widow’s son at Nain (Luke 7:11), and Lazarus (John 11:43).<\/p>\n
6. The Provisions of Today and Tomorrow<\/p>\n
Jesus was given the miracle of knowing what people had just eaten, as well as what they had in store for the coming days. God says.
\n\u201cI inform you too of what things you eat, and what you store up in your houses. Surely in that is a sign for you, if you are believers.\u201d (Quran 3:49)<\/p>\n
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Similar to other prophets, Jesus performed miracles to convince skeptics of his truthfulness, not to demonstrate his divinity. The Quran says:
\n\u201cSurely in that is a sign for you, if you are believers.\u201d (Quran 3:49)<\/p>\n
These miracles were performed only by the Will of God, had he not willed them to occur, they could never come to be. God explicitly states this in the Quran, saying that they were:
\n\u201c\u2026by the permission of God\u201d (Quran 3:49; 5:10)<\/p>\n
Although Muslims can not confirm it, the Bible, through certain narrations, states that Jesus at times failed to perform miracles. Once when Jesus tried to heal a blind man, he was not healed after the first attempt, and Jesus had to try a second time (Mark 8: 22-26). In another instance, \u201cHe could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them.\u201d(Mark 6:5)<\/p>\n
The fact remains that indeed it was not through his own will that Jesus or any other prophet performed miracles. Rather, they were performed only by Will of God Almighty – a fact also explicitly stated in the Bible:
\n\u201cA man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through him in your midst.\u201d (Acts 2:22)<\/p>\n
Footnotes:
\n[1] Matt. 26:17\u201329; Mark 14:12\u201325; Luke 22:7\u201338; I Cor. 11:23\u201325
\n[2] \u201cEucharist.\u201d Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica from Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica Premium Service. (http:\/\/www.britannica.com\/eb\/article-9033174)
\n[3] Healing the blind (Matt 8:2, Mark 1:40, Luke 5:12, Luke 17:11), and the leper (Matt 9:27, Matt 8:22; 20:30, Mark 10:46, Luke 18:35, and John 9:1)<\/p>\n
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