New Horizon Christian Fellowship

The midday darkness is the first of the six miracles that happened during Jesus’s crucifixion (Matthew 27:45). It is the beginning of the divine procession of signs that heralded the death of Jesus Christ.   "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour." (Matthew 27:45, ESV)    At midday (the sixth hour of the day or noon), darkness came over the whole land for three hours (Matthew 27:45). At the ninth hour (3:00 in the afternoon), Jesus cried out to the...

Mark 1:30-31 is significant as it demonstrates Jesus’ immediate, compassionate, and absolute authority over physical illness, turning a private, life-threatening crisis into a scene of healing and service. By touching and raising Simon’s mother-in-law, Jesus reverses the curse of sickness, immediately restores her to functionality, and models a life of ministry and gratitude.    Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they told Jesus about her. So he went to her, took her hand and...

To heal a man born blind, Jesus “spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes” (John 9:6). Certainly, Jesus, the divine Son of God, does not need physical props to work miracles. In many cases, Jesus merely spoke, and healing followed (e.g., Matthew 15:28; Luke 17:12-14). Yet, in three cases, Jesus used His spittle in the process of healing. It is possible that Jesus’ use of mud in John 9 was meant to parallel God’s original creation of man: “The LORD God...