But I dont think these can be compared: there are at least 52 <> miracles attributed to Jesus, while all Onias did was draw a circle and stay there until it rained… (afaik)
Well, the legend (I’m using this term in a broad sense mind you) as preserved in the Mishnah goes like this: once, when it did not rain well into the winter (something unnatural in Israel), Honi drew a circle in the dust, stood inside it, and informed God that he would not move until He sent rain: “O Lord of the world, your children have turned their faces to me, because I am like a son of the house before you. I swear by your great name that I will not stir hence until you have pity on your children.” When it began to drizzle, Honi told God that he was not satisfied and expected “a rain of goodwill, blessing and righteousness.” It then began to pour heavily, so much that some people in Jerusalem evacuated to the higher ground of the Temple mount. He explained that he wanted a calm rain, at which point the rain calmed to a normal rain.
This attitude towards God, which was so impertinent as to be almost blasphemous, was controversial. However, Shimon ben Shetach (the leading Pharisee at the time) excused him: “Were you not Honi I would have pronounced a ban against you! But what I shall I do to you - you importune God and he performs your will, like a son who importunes his father and he performs his will.”
Honi’s fame was such that Josephus (who also makes a passing reference to the drought story), who often did not think highly of the rebels, prophets and messiahs he was talking about, wrote somewhat positively of him.
After these promises had been given to Aretas, he made an expedition against Aristobulus with an army of fifty thousand horse and foot, and beat him in the battle. And when after that victory many went over to Hyrcanus as deserters, Aristobulus was left desolate, and fled to Jerusalem; upon which the king of Arabia took all his army, and made an assault upon the temple, and besieged Aristobulus therein, the people still supporting Hyrcanus, and assisting him in the siege, while none but the priests continued with Aristobulus. So Aretas united the forces of the Arabians and of the Jews together, and pressed on the siege vigorously. As this happened at the time when the feast of unleavened bread was celebrated, which we call the passover, the principal men among the Jews left the country, and fled into Egypt. Now there was one, whose name was Onias. A righteous man he was, and beloved of God, who, in a certain drought, had prayed to God to put an end to the intense heat, and whose prayers God had heard, and had sent them rain. This man had hid himself, because he saw that this sedition would last a great while. However, they brought him to the Jewish camp, and desired, that as by his prayers he had once put an end to the drought, so he would in like manner make imprecations on Aristobulus and those of his faction. And when, upon his refusal, and the excuses that he made, he was still by the multitude compelled to speak, he stood up in the midst of them, and said, “O God, the King of the whole world! since those that stand now with me are thy people, and those that are besieged are also thy priests, I beseech thee, that thou wilt neither hearken to the prayers of those against these, nor bring to effect what these pray against those.” Whereupon such wicked Jews as stood about him, as soon as he had made this prayer, stoned him to death.
I think Hanina ben Dosa is a bit closer.
, and probably all of them might agree Jesus was baptized and crucified, but other than that?It would be interesting if we had an analysis like that to each Gospel
