BIBLE RECORDS | 124 MIRACLES (92)

1. What are "Miracles"?

a) Miracles are those acts that only God can perform; usually superseding natural laws. Baker’s Dictionary of the Bible defines a miracle as “an event in the external world brought about by the immediate agency or the simple volition of God.” It goes on to add that a miracle occurs to show that the power behind it is not limited to the laws of matter or mind as it interrupts fixed natural laws. So the term supernatural applies quite accurately.

b) Miracles are also known as Signs and Wonders.

c) Here we have one of the 124 miracles recorded in the Bible.

2. Miracle 92: HEALING—of Malchus (Luke 22:50-51). 

a) Healing of Malchus.

Luke 22:50-51 New King James Version (NKJV)

⁵⁰ And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear.

⁵¹ But Jesus answered and said, “Permit even this.” And He touched his ear and healed him. 

b) Malchus - meaning: reigning.

i) The personal servant or slave of the high priest Caiaphas.

ii) He is mentioned only by John. Peter cut off his right ear in the garden of Gethsemane (John 18:10). 

iii) But our Lord cured it with a touch (Matthew 26:51; Mark 14:47; Luke 22:51). This was the last miracle of bodily cure wrought by our Lord. It is not mentioned by John.