Semeion in the Gospel of John
Semeion in the Gospel of John John 3:2 Excerpt In the Gospel there is general reference to the σημεῖα of Jesus ( 2:23 ; 3:2 ; 6:2 , 26 ; 9:16 ) and sometimes there is summary mention of their great number ( 11:47 ; 12:37 ; 20:30 ). But a few are specially emphasised. In general they are the kind of miracles expected with the dawn of the Messianic age, cf . the saying in Is. 35:5 ( Mt. 11:5 / Lk. 7:22 ).309 No matter how one computes the number of σημεῖα of Jesus which were particularly important for the Evangelist,310 those miracles which he records bear Messianic features and are thus in some sense Messianic epiphany-miracles. The miracle at the wedding in Cana of Galilee in Jn. 2:11 , the second miracle at Cana (the healing of the son of the βασιλικός ) in 4:54 , the feeding of the multitude in 6:14 and the raising of Lazarus in 12:18 are all explicitly c...