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  • Bill, there are indications in some places like the dead sea scrolls that some Jewsand Samaritans were expecting a wonderworking Prophet-Messiah.

    Tacitus on Mythicism James F. McGrath 2010

  • The conversion by his followers of a galilean wonderworking prophet like Jesus into the crucified Messiah is one of those unexpected mutations that occurs from time to time in the history of religion.

    Tacitus on Mythicism James F. McGrath 2010

  • On the other hand we have no evidence whatsoever for an expectation of a crucified wonderworking Prophet-Messiah at the time of Jesus or before.

    Tacitus on Mythicism James F. McGrath 2010

  • February 08, 2007 - There is power, power, wonderworking power

    dudemanflab Diary Entry dudemanflab 2002

  • Further, by means of a fire he becomes, almost without effort, a wonderworking cause, a manipulator of nature, a miracle worker.

    The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work Allan Hoben

  • Zibeon is a wonderworking Rabbi, a subtle sophist, a crafty dialectician.

    The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919

  • The leather bag now disclosed its wonderworking phials; fifteen drops of a yellowish drug were diluted with two fingers of water, and the sick woman, lifted up in bed, managed to swallow this with sharp cries of pain.

    Maria Chapdelaine; a Tale of the Lake St. John country 1913

  • He still thought of Oglugechana, who dwells within a hollow tree, and determined to surprise and if possible to overpower this wonderworking old man.

    Old Indian Days Charles Alexander Eastman 1898

  • They confess before me Thy power, Thy goodness, loudly proclaiming to all that Thou hast stretched out Thy wonderworking hand over them and raised them up from the bed of sickness, from their death-bed, when no one expected that they would live; and then, after the communion of Thy life-giving Body and Blood, they soon revived, were healed, and felt upon them at the very same hour and day Thy life-giving Hand.

    My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God 1829-1909 1897

  • The leather bag now disclosed its wonderworking phials; fifteen drops of a yellowish drug were diluted with two fingers of water, and the sick woman, lifted up in bed, managed to swallow this with sharp cries of pain.

    Maria Chapdelaine Louis H��mon 1896

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