Examples of Jesus doing actions so that his audience may believe

[MarcoPolo]

Anyone know of other acts of Jesus that he performed where the text says he did so for the purpose of his audience believing?

One example I can think of is at the healing of the paralytic when he says, “so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority to forgive sins, take up your pallet and walk”…

What else? Even OT examples where God acts so that they believe.

 

[MarcoPolo]

Found another one.

John 11:42-46 I knew that thou hearest me always, but I have said this on account of the people standing by, that they may believe that thou didst send me." When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Laz’arus, come out.” The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with bandages, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.” Many of the Jews therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what he did, believed in him; but some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

 

[thistle]

But remember that all the miracles Jesus performed were as a result of requests for mercy. He did not simply walk into a crowd and perform a miracle for people to believe.

 

[Nita]

Some OT passages:

(The plagues)
Exodus 7:5 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch forth My hand upon Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.
Exodus 7:17 Thus says the LORD, "By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, I will strike the water that is in the Nile with the rod that is in my hand, and it shall be turned to blood,… (Also see Exodus 8:10; 8:22; 9:14-16; 9;29; 10:2)

Exodus 19:9 And the LORD said to Moses, “Lo, I am coming to you in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and may also believe you for ever.”

Deut. 4:33-35 Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself…by signs, by wonders, …according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

NT: (This passage does not refer to a specific miracle, but is a statement by Jesus that His miracles/works should serve to lead people to believe in Him.

John 10:37-38 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

 

[Benadam]

And Jesus passing by, saw a man, who was blind from his birth: [2]And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind? [3] Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

 

[MarcoPolo]

John 10:37-38 If I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; but if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

Thanks. This inspired me to find another good one!*John 5:19,21,34,39-41 Jesus said to [the Jews] … For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will. … Not that the testimony which I receive is from man; but I say this that you may be saved. … You search the scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness to me; yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. *The purpose of these is to show that according to divine revelation, there are times when people thwart in some sense what God wills or desires. I’m in a formal public debate with a Calvinist, and that’s one of the issues.