may be right, but even if God sometimes attested witnesses, this is hardly the only purpose of signs in the New Testament. God is more often said to attest his message, not just the first witnesses to that message (for example, Acts 14:3), so it is reasonable to expect God to continue to use signs to confirm his message today. Nor do Paul’s later letters indicate the disappearance of gifts, as some have thought (1 Tim. 1:18; 4:14; 2 Tim. 1:6). Someone not being healed (2 Tim. 4:20) was not a new