Miracles: The Credibility of the New Testament Accounts

by Craig S. Keener

I have direct accounts in which others recognized the languages from Dr. Derek Morphew (Nov. 12, 2007); Pastor David Workman (April 30, 2008); Dr. Médine Moussounga Keener (Aug. 12, 2009, secondhand about Pastor Daniel Ndoundou); my student Leah Macinskas-Le (April 25, 2010, regarding her Jewish mother becoming a believer in Jesus because she understood the Hebrew prayer of an uneducated pastor’s prayer in tongues); Del Tarr, personal correspondence, Sept. 30, 2010 (noting three cases he has witnessed, including a recent one involving Korean; cf. also Oct. 5, 6, 2010). In written sources, see Tarr, Foolishness, 401–3 (about ten cases, some with considerable supporting evidence, especially cases where Tarr, a linguist, was one of the eyewitnesses); Prather, Miracles, 166–71 (an eyewitness account); Mansfield, Pentecost, 50 (a French major, Mansfield listened as a friend, praying in tongues, prayed in French with perfect pronunciation, and Mansfield discovered afterward that the friend did not even know that he had been praying in French); Warner, Evangelist, 256–57 (on 267n13 noting the interview source insisting that the speaker, who knew no Romanian, spoke it for twenty-five minutes); Burton, “Villages,” 8 (when central African believers received tongues, “we heard perfect English and beautiful French by natives who had never heard” them, as well as “South African Dutch and German”); Simpson, “Utterance” (a Chinese Christian reported unknowingly praying in Japanese, there...