The lost sheep Jerusalem 18:12-14 15:3-7 III. Recorded in three Gospels New cloth on old Capernaum 9:16 2:21 5:36 garment New wine in old 9:17 2:22 5:37 bottles The sower Gennesaret 13:3-9 4:3-9 8:4-15 The mustard-seed 13:31,32 4:30-32 13:18,19 The wicked husbandmen Jerusalem 21:33-43 12:1-9 20:9-16 The fig-tree Mt. of 24:32,33 13:28,29 21:29-31 Olives Miracles Of Christ [Illustration.] Healing The Lunatic. "A man approved of God ... by miracles and wonders." Acts 2:22. 1. What testimony did the chief priests and Pharisees bear concerning Christ’s work? “Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for _this man doeth many miracles_.” John 11:47. 2. By what did Peter, on the day of Pentecost, say that Christ had been approved by God? “Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you _by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by Him in the midst of you_, as ye yourselves also know.” Acts 2:22. 3. By what means did Christ claim to cast out devils? “But if I _with the finger of God_ cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.” Luke 11:20. Matt. 12:28 says “by the _Spirit_ of God.” NOTE.—Under the third plague in Egypt,—that of turning the dust into lice,—the magicians, failing to duplicate it, said to Pharaoh, “This is the finger of God.” Ex. 8:18, 19. 4. Upon what ground did Nicodemus rest his belief that Christ was a teacher from God? “Rabbi, we know that Thou art a teacher come from God: _for no man can do these miracles that Thou doest, except God be with him_.” John 3:2. 5. After the healing of the blind man, upon what charge did some of the Pharisees seek to prove that Christ was not of God? “Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, _because He keepeth not the Sabbath day_.” John 9:16, first part. NOTE.—This was a false charge. Christ did keep the Sabbath, but not according to the Pharisees’ idea of Sabbath-keeping. See reading on “Christ and the Sabbath,” page 430. 6. What question did others raise in opposition to this view? “Others said, _How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles?_ And there was a division among them.” Same verse, last part. 7. What was the result of Christ’s working miracles at His first Passover? “Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, in the feast-day, _many believed in His name, when they saw the miracles which He did_.” John 2:23. 8. What question did the performing of these miracles lead many to ask? “And many of the people believed on Him, and said, _When Christ cometh, will He do more miracles than these which this man hath done?_” John 7:31.