After their multitude, the next strongest argument for Christ's divinity is their magnitude. " Such works I do," says He, " as no man ever did before . . ." and we may add, or since. True, Christ promised that whosoever believed in Him would have the power to work equal and even greater prodigies than He, but we must not forget that whatever is accomplished by God's servants in the way of miracles is really done by power not theirs but Christ's. Christ taught this when He said : " I go to the Father and whatever you ask in My name that I will do," and Peter and John showed how well they had learned when they declared to the Jews that not by their power, but in the name of Jesus, had they cured the infirm man at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple. Besides, Christ calls the effects of apostolic ministry greater miracles than His to show that the conversion and the cleansing of a soul from sin is a greater miracle than the raising of the dead to life.
Again the manner of Christ's miracles distinguishes them from miracles of saints and further proves Him God, for they by prayer and fasting accomplished gradually their results, but Christ not so, but instantly and by His sole command. The variety of His miracles, too, attests the self-same truth of His divinity, for in every creature of the universe, animate and inanimate, He showed His almighty power. Of inanimate objects the star led to His birthplace, and the sun was darkened at His death; the loaves were multiplied; the water saw its Lord
