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C
. But Jesus was filled with the Holy Ghost while he was still in
his mother’s womb.
M
. The same was true with John the Baptist (
Luke 1:13, 15
): “But
the angel said unto him, fear not Zacharias, for thy prayer is
heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou
shalt call his name John. For he shall be great in the sight of the
Lord, and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost even from his
mother’s womb.”
C.
But Jesus could do miracles. He fed five thousand people with
only five loaves and two fishes.
M.
Elisha and Elijah did the same miracle. Elisha fed hundreds
of people with twenty barley loaves and a few ears of corn (
II
Kings 4:44
): “So he set it before them and they did eat, and left
thereof, according to the word of the Lord.” Elisha secured the
increase of a widow’s oil and he said to her
(II Kings 4:7)
: “Go,
sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children on
the rest.” See also
I Kings 17:16
: “And the barrel of meal wasted
not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the
Lord, which He spake by Elijah.” Also
I Kings. 17:6
: “And the
ravens brought him (Elijah) bread and flesh in the morning,
bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.”
C.
But Jesus could heal leprosy.
M
. Elisha told Naaman who was a leper to wash in the Jordan
river
(II Kings 5:14):
“Then went he (Naaman) down, and dipped
himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man
of God (Elisha) and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a
little child, and he was clean.”
C
. But Jesus could cause a blind man to see again.