He was especially wondering about resurrections.
While teaching a Bible class years ago, a young student asked me why we don’t see more miracles today, like we did in the Bible. Yes, only God can do miracles, but God does them through us.Image © Review & Herald Publishing at We can now say what Jesus said during His walk on earth – “We can do nothing of ourselves, it is the Holy Spirit at work within us, He does the miracles.” Our walk of faith is intended to reproduce His walk of faith. A believer’s work in the miraculous is the work of the Holy Spirit within them. This empowerment started on the Day of Pentecost and continued on through the rest of the New Testament. “But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away for if I do not go away, the Helper (Holy Spirit) will not come to you but if I go, I will send Him to you. Jesus actually told His disciples that it was more advantageous for the Holy Spirit to be in them than for Him, Jesus, to be with them and next to them. God is pleased to work through non-divine individuals, and He does this through the work of the Holy Spirit. “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also and greater works than these he will do because I go to the Father.” John 14:12 This is exactly what Jesus meant when he said: He is both our example and our substitute, and as our example, He showed us how to walk in the supernatural. In the Incarnation, He took on everything but our sin, and that He took on at the cross. Either this is true or the humanity of Jesus was somehow different from our humanity. If Jesus remained human during the miraculous, then there is a way for other humans to do the miraculous.
If only God can do miracles, Jesus would have had to momentarily transcend His humanity to accomplish them, and the above verse would not be true. Therefore Jesus answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.” John 5:19 He was still fully God, but now He was also fully man. He ministered by the working of the Holy Spirit (Philippians 2:5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11). The scriptures are clear that He, thus acting as a man, could do no miracles. How then did Jesus accomplish His miracles in the Gospels? Yes, Jesus was and is God, but it is clear from scripture that when He was born of a virgin (in His Incarnation) He emptied Himself of His inherent divine outward powers, and surrendered His divine will to that of the Father. We all know that only God can do miracles.
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