Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father.
-The Gospel of John 14:12, NKJV
What are these “greater works” which those who believe in Jesus Christ will do? What can be greater than calming the wind and the waves of a raging storm by rebuking [Mark 4:35-41; Matt 8:18, 23-27; Luke 8:22-25]? Halting a hurricane perhaps? Or, how does one do greater than raising Lazarus from the dead after four days [John 11:38-44]? Raising the dead after five days? Six days? Thirty days? A year?
Craig Blomberg notes Jesus’ emphatic “double-‘Amen’” [“Verily, Verily” in the KJV or “Truly, truly” in the NASB, rendered “Most assuredly” above, which literally translates as “Amen, amen”] yet, “it is not likely that the later church would invent a…
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