universe, to explain away what is presented to us. Not only are such artifices now made obsolete by changes in cosmology, but they obscure the point that the reign of God realised in the ministry, death and resurrection of Jesus does not distinguish as we sometimes do between spirit and matter. Creation is one, and its redemption does not make that kind of distinction. In that sense, all of the Synoptic miracles, and in a different way John’s carefully chosen selection, are signs and instances of