Nine miracles over wind, water, and bread—and almost nobody was watching when they happened.
Jesus turned water into wine at a wedding nobody bothered to name. He told professional fishermen where the fish were. He slept through a storm, walked across a lake at three in the morning, fed a hillside out of a boy's lunch sack, and killed a fig tree on the road to Jerusalem.
Nine miracles over wind, water, and bread—and almost nobody was watching when they happened.
This is a chapter-by-chapter walk through every nature miracle in the four Gospels: the Old Testament stories sitting underneath them, the Greek words that change what you thought a verse said, the geography, the objections skeptics raise, and the jokes. Why the water jars were stone. Why Mark stops to mention that the grass was green. Why the last miracle in the New Testament is a man cooking breakfast on a beach for the friend who denied him.
It is also a book about the people who didn't get one.
Most chapters include a section called The Ones Who Weren't Healed—the other boats out in the same storm, the father left standing on the shore, the prophet who wrote from a prison cell to ask whether he'd backed the wrong man. Scott Douglas was sixteen when a room full of people prayed over his curving spine and he got a surgeon instead. Years later he prayed for his son's heartbeat and didn't get that either.
He does not explain why some people get the miracle. He says so on the first page.
What he does instead is take these nine stories apart slowly, and show what each one was pointing at.
