others (sometimes depending partly on the expectations of the audiences for which they were writing).30 The Gospels and Acts report more signs (and Luke-Acts probably more unambiguously favorably than Mark or John) than do most ancient historians,31 but this is partly because they narrate the story of a miracle worker,32 the sort of story where such signs (as opposed to wars among peoples or political competition among the elite) would have been important to the story.33 Although no historian is