It is undeniable that our Lord professed to work miracles.
Renan venerates with a sincerity which no one can doubt as the purest and greatest of moral reformers, did claim power from God to work miracles--is harmonised with the assumption that the claim could not possibly have been a true one.
We may go further, and assert with confidence that Christ was believed by his followers really to work miracles, and that it was mainly on this account that they conceded to Him the pre-eminent dignity and authority which he claimed.
The belief in the efficacy of saints' relics to work miracles was so general in the ninth century that at last monks and bishops aspired also in their own lifetime to imitate this wonder-working power.
The boy soon began to work miracles by restoring birds and dead bodies to life.
All this time Christopher prayed, and a light shone from his countenance, and his relics began to work miracles.
This saint was said to work miracles, but at last was charged with heresy and idolatry, on account of his using an ornament which he invented as a help to devotion.
He had their power to work miracles, their authority in teaching; but having a more important mission to accomplish, He had this power and authority more fully.
He refused to leap off a pinnacle of the Temple, which could serve no other purpose than to prove He had power to work miracles.
He will be a great scientist, and in the eyes and faith of the multitude He will be able to work miracles—to bring, scientifically, fire down from heaven.
Therefore an angel can work outside the order of corporeal agents; which is to work miracles.
Objection 1: It would seem that the angels can work miracles.
Therefore the angels and demons can work miracles.
Objection 1: It would seem that the wicked cannot work miracles.
This impostor pretends to work miracles in confirmation of his divine mission; and also pretends to give his disciples power to work miracles.
But now they pretend to work miracles in confirmation of the truth of the resurrection!
Those who were unwilling to believe what the apostles wrote of Christ would have refused to believe the writings of Christ, whom they deemed to work miracles by the magic art.
Moreover, it was fitting that He should not begin to work miracles at an early age.
Objection 1: It would seem that Christ did not work miracles by Divine power.
He was a stranger to the rules of Hebrew rhetoric; nor did he consider that they were addressed to the apostles, who had the power to work miracles.
Rose, in his Biographical Dictionary, distorts this singular affair into, 'he laid claim to a faith of such magnitude as to work miracles!
They were simply sent out to announce a specific fact, the near approach and setting up of the kingdom of heaven, and to work miracles in confirmation of it.
All that we assume is, that God can work miracles, not that He has wrought them.
Jesus ended by reminding His disciples that, though He had given them permission to work miracles, they would not have power to do so, unless they prayed earnestly for it, and tried to lead holy lives.
His success as usual raised the envy and anger of the unbelieving Jews, who were anxious to draw the people away from the Apostle, by making them believe that they could work miracles as well as St. Paul.
God commissioned Moses to work miracles as signs of his divine commission, and seals of his testimony recorded in the Bible.
He claimed to be a Divine Person, and professed to work miracles.
And whether he does not directly claim to work miracles by the immediate power of God?
Concerning his own ability to work miracles, he is reticent and cautious.
His unwillingness to ask for the grace of working miracles; his demand that the fanatics should work miracles to substantiate their claims; his allusions to the power of his own prayer in restoring the sick to health.
Hence it has been said that he claimed a certain latent ability to work miracles.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "work miracles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
