According to Harvey, miracle working is attested of Jesus with a high degree of historical certainty. There are few stories from around the time of Jesus that exactly parallel the miracles of Jesus, and we should note the restraint of the Gospel stories. In the period from 200 BCE to 200 CE the number of miracles recorded which are remotely comparable to those of Jesus is astonishingly small. In Judaism the only roughly contemporary and comparable figures are Ḥoni the Rain Marker and Ḥanina ben
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