Christianity: Miracles and parables Flashcards
Feeding the 5000:
Nature miracle
Jesus is teaching 5000 people. They are so amazed at him they do not leave. Everyone starts to get hungry. Peter and John tell Jesus to send them all home, but Jesus asks them to collect all the food that there is amongst the crowd. They only find 5 loaves and 2 fish from a young boy. Jesus blesses and breaks the bread and there is enough for everyone to be completely full. At the end there were 12 baskets left over.
Raising of Lazarus:
Jesus is good friends with Lazarus, but he hears that he is sick. A couple of days later, Jesus hears that Lazarus has died. He is very upset, so he goes to where Lazarus is laid in a tomb. Mary and Martha meet him and say they wish Jesus had been there before he died so he could heal him. They both believe that Jesus is the son of God and ask him to do something. Jesus cries because Lazarus was a good friend and also because Mary and Martha are so upset. However, he goes into the tomb and tells Lazarus to get up. To everyone’s amazement, Lazarus rises from the dead! He tells Mary and Martha to take off his grave clothes and everyone celebrates because Lazarus is alive again!
The Parable of the Sower:
A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them. Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
Sower = Jesus, or someone who spreads Jesus’ message.
Seed = word of God.
Wayside = the listener who hears but doesn’t understand.
Thorns = listener who has a problem with priorities. Rather than placing God first, this person focuses on things of
this world.
Good ground = the receptive, productive listener. This listener acts on their understanding of the word.
