1 Korintus 12:28-29

12:28 And God has placed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, gifts of healing, helps, gifts of leadership, different kinds of tongues. 12:29 Not all are apostles, are they? Not all are prophets, are they? Not all are teachers, are they? Not all perform miracles, do they?

Markus 16:17

16:17 These signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages; ¹ 

Markus 16:20

16:20 They went out and proclaimed everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the word through the accompanying signs.]]

Lukas 24:49

24:49 And look, I am sending you ²  what my Father promised. ³  But stay in the city ⁴  until you have been clothed with power ⁵  from on high.”

Yohanes 14:12

14:12 I tell you the solemn truth, ⁶  the person who believes in me will perform ⁷  the miraculous deeds ⁸  that I am doing, ⁹  and will perform ¹⁰  greater deeds ¹¹  than these, because I am going to the Father.

Kisah Para Rasul 1:8

1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts ¹²  of the earth.”

Roma 15:19

15:19 in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit of God. So from Jerusalem even as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

Galatia 3:5

3:5 Does God then give ¹³  you the Spirit and work miracles among you by your doing the works of the law ¹⁴  or by your believing what you heard? ¹⁵ 

Ibrani 2:4

2:4 while God confirmed their witness ¹⁶  with signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed ¹⁷  according to his will.

[16:17]  ¹ tn Grk “tongues,” though the word is used figuratively (perhaps as a metonymy of cause for effect). To “speak in tongues” meant to “speak in a foreign language,” though one that was new to the one speaking it and therefore due to supernatural causes. For a discussion concerning whether such was a human language, heavenly language, or merely ecstatic utterance, see BDAG 201-2 s.v. γλῶσσα 2, 3; BDAG 399 s.v. ἕτερος 2; L&N 33.2-4; ExSyn 698; C. M. Robeck Jr., “Tongues,” DPL, 939-43.

[24:49]  ² tn Grk “sending on you.”

[24:49]  ³ tn Grk “the promise of my Father,” with τοῦ πατρός (tou patros) translated as a subjective genitive. This is a reference to the Holy Spirit and looks back to how one could see Messiah had come with the promise of old (Luke 3:15-18). The promise is rooted in Jer 31:31 and Ezek 36:26.

[24:49]  ⁴ sn The city refers to Jerusalem.

[24:49]  ⁵ sn Until you have been clothed with power refers to the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. What the Spirit supplies is enablement. See Luke 12:11-12; 21:12-15. The difference the Spirit makes can be seen in Peter (compare Luke 22:54-62 with Acts 2:14-41).

[14:12]  ⁶ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[14:12]  ⁷ tn Or “will do.”

[14:12]  ⁸ tn Grk “the works.”

[14:12]  ⁹ tn Or “that I do.”

[14:12]  sn See the note on miraculous deeds in v. 11.

[14:12]  ¹⁰ tn Or “will do.”

[14:12]  ¹¹ tn Grk “greater works.”

[14:12]  sn What are the greater deeds that Jesus speaks of, and how is this related to his going to the Father? It is clear from both John 7:39 and 16:7 that the Holy Spirit will not come until Jesus has departed. After Pentecost and the coming of the Spirit to indwell believers in a permanent relationship, believers would be empowered to perform even greater deeds than those Jesus did during his earthly ministry. When the early chapters of Acts are examined, it is clear that, from a numerical standpoint, the deeds of Peter and the other Apostles surpassed those of Jesus in a single day (the day of Pentecost). On that day more were added to the church than had become followers of Jesus during the entire three years of his earthly ministry. And the message went forth not just in Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, but to the farthest parts of the known world. This understanding of what Jesus meant by “greater deeds” is more probable than a reference to “more spectacular miracles.” Certainly miraculous deeds were performed by the apostles as recounted in Acts, but these do not appear to have surpassed the works of Jesus himself in either degree or number.

[1:8]  ¹² tn Or “to the ends.”

[3:5]  ¹³ tn Or “provide.”

[3:5]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “by [the] works of [the] law” (the same phrase as in v. 2).

[3:5]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “by [the] hearing of faith” (the same phrase as in v. 2).

[2:4]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “God bearing witness together” (the phrase “with them” is implied).

[2:4]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “and distributions of the Holy Spirit.”