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Miracles & Unbelief – Mark 6:5-6
In Mark 6 we read that Jesus went to His hometown and He was unable to perform mighty works there.
Mark 6:5-6- “And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. And he marveled because of their unbelief.”
The passage connects the lack of miracles performed by the Lord in that place with the lack of belief among the people. This doesn’t mean that Jesus was absolutely incapable of performing miracles there, but that it was unfitting and incompatible with God’s will to grant such miracles to people who were unbelieving and of such bad will.
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Pt. 3, Q. 43, A. 2, Reply to Obj. 1: “When it is said that He could not do any miracles there, it is not to be understood that He could not do them absolutely, but that it was not fitting for Him to do them: for it was unfitting for Him to work miracles among unbelievers. Wherefore is it is said farther on: And He marveled at their unbelief.”
Antoine Augustin Calmet, French Benedictine Scripture Scholar, Commentarius literalis in omnes libros Veteris et Novi Testamenti, Vol. 7, p. 309 (Commentary on Mark 6:5), AD 1756: “… truly He did not want to [work miracles there], since the ungrateful and faithless citizens had placed an obstacle to His mercy. He willed to grant no benefits to the unappreciative, and to show no indications of His wondrous power to those who neglected Him. Commonly it is expressed thus: ‘I cannot strike [someone] with the sword, nor can I spare him.’ It is not however absolutely denied that this is possible, but rather we say that we are opposed to doing it because our will is reluctant.”
Mark 6 teaches us that when faith and good will are absent, God typically will not grant miracles. This explains why many public miracles were performed in the ages of faith and why such public miracles have mostly been withdrawn the final days, when almost the entire world lacks faith and good will (Luke 18:8).
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Former V2 Lay Minister
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