giving sight to the blind, a peculiar manifestation of Messianic credentials.3 While it is true that Peter prayed on behalf of a woman who was subsequently brought back to life (Acts 9:40), we do not read of an apostle raising someone four days dead and sealed in a tomb. One must keep in mind that to whatever Jesus here refers it must in some sense be ‘greater’ by comparison than His own experience. Is it accurate to suggest that the apostles were given the ability to perform greater miracles than