come. The same basic truth was elaborated when he cleansed the temple (2:13ff.), when he told Nicodemus of the necessity of the new birth (3:1ff.), and when he offered the Samaritan woman living water (4:1ff). Jesus had introduced a new beginning. Miracles 2 and 3: Jesus performed two healing miracles, as signs of his claim to give new life. First he healed the son of a royal official in Capernaum (4:43, 54). This was his second sign. Then, at the Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem, he healed a man who