Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts

by Craig S. Keener

elderly woman pastor, with a year of medical training, lamented to me her small faith in seeing only seven or eight dramatic healings, plus many less dramatic ones, over the years.[277] When I asked her if she had ever witnessed healings of eyes or ears, she immediately told me the story of a non-Christian elderly woman about ten years earlier, who had not been able to open one of her eyes for twenty-seven or maybe twenty-eight years due to a nerve problem. As soon as this pastor laid hands on her, the eye opened. The healed woman immediately became a Christian and remains one today. Another woman from a particular urban area told me of her classmate, who after eight or ten years of marriage remained childless. The doctor discovered that the classmate had two uteruses, one with a defective tube to the ovaries, and the other apparently without a tube. Although doctors repaired the defective tube for the first uterus, no pregnancy resulted. My informant prayed for her persistently, and her classmate did become pregnant—in the apparently unconnected uterus! My informant said that because this uterus was also unconnected to the normal birth canal, the surprised doctor had to remove the baby surgically, but the daughter is healthy.[278] The same informant told me about the mother of another classmate