LESSON XX.
SEVERAL MIRACLES.
Luke, vi. 11-16.
After Jesus had turned the water into wine, he did a great many wonders. He made blind people see, and deaf people hear, and dumb people speak, and lame people walk.
When Jesus came to a place, all the sick people crowded round him.
Jesus did not send them away because they disturbed him, but he cured them all—yes—every one.
This was the way in which he cured one blind man. He said, See! and the man could see that moment.
This was the way in which he cured a man who was deaf and dumb. Jesus put his fingers into his ears, and touched his tongue, and looked up to his Father in heaven, and said, Be opened! and immediately the string of his tongue was loosed, and he could speak plainly.
Once Jesus saw a poor sick man lying on a bed, and Jesus said to him, Should you like to be made well? The poor man said he wished very much to be made well. Then Jesus said, Get up, carry your bed, and walk. The man tried to get up, and he found that he could; for Jesus gave him strength.
One day Jesus was in a place like a church; he was preaching; when he saw a poor woman whose back was bent, so that she could not lift up her head. Jesus said, Woman, I have made you well; and then Jesus touched her with his hands, and her back grew straight, and she began to praise God.
Sometimes Jesus made dead people alive again. That was more wonderful than making sick people well.
Once Jesus was walking on the road. A great many people were walking after him, for people liked to see him do wonders, and to hear him talk. They met some men carrying a dead man to put him in the ground.
A poor old woman came after, crying very much. She was the mother of the dead man. He was her only son. Jesus was very sorry to see her cry. He came up to her and said, Do not cry, and then he touched the coffin. There was no top to it; the dead man was lying in it.
Jesus said, Get up, young man. He sat up and began to speak. Then Jesus said to his mother, Here is your son.
All the people were surprised, and said, This must be the Son of God. He can make dead people live again.