Miracle Stories
Sacred accounts of divine intervention from the world's major traditions, organized by faith. Each story carries the distinctive voice of its tradition while pointing toward the transcendent.
Ancient Egypt
2 accountsPapyrus Leiden
Pharaoh Ramesses II protected by Amun at the Battle of Kadesh — surrounded, then supernaturally aided
Pyramid Texts
Pharaoh transforms into a falcon and flies to the heavens at death
Bahai
1 accountBab's writings
The Bab announces the imminent coming of 'Him Whom God shall make manifest' — fulfilled in Baha'u'llah
Buddhism
9 accountsMajjhima Nikaya 86
Buddha heals Angulimala (a serial killer transformed)
Divyavadana
The monk Pindola multiplies food to feed the entire sangha
Pali Canon, Mahāparinibbāna Sutta
Buddha predicts the exact day and hour of his own death
Pali Canon
Buddha remembers infinite past lives
Milindapanha
Nagasena extinguishes a fire supernaturally to protect a monastery
Christianity
13 accounts2 Kings 2:11
Elijah ascends to heaven in a chariot of fire
John 1:1-3
The Word (Logos) becomes flesh
Gospels
Jesus heals the blind, lame, lepers
John 11
Jesus raises Lazarus
Acts 12:7-10
An angel opens prison doors and leads Peter to freedom
Hinduism
10 accountsBhagavata Purana 7.8
Vishnu appears as Narasimha to protect the devotee Prahlada from his demonic father
Bhagavad Gita 11
Krishna reveals his cosmic form to Arjuna
Mahabharata 6.2
Vyasa foresees and narrates the entire Mahabharata war to his disciples before it happens
Bhagavata Purana 10.6
Krishna kills the demoness Putana who came disguised as a nurse
Mahabharata 3.4
Islam
11 accountsQuran 42:51-52
Muhammad receives revelation directly from God
Sahih Bukhari
Muhammad heals the eyes of Ali
Quran 21:68-69
Abraham saved from Nimrod's fire
Quran 19:57-58
Idris (Enoch) taken to a lofty station
Quran 27:16-44
Solomon speaks to ants and birds
Judaism
12 accountsExodus 14:21-22
Moses parts the Red Sea
1 Kings 17:14-16
Elijah's widow's jar of flour and oil never run out
Daniel 3
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace
Daniel 6:22
Daniel is unharmed in the lion's den — angels shut the lions' mouths
Isaiah 44:28, 45:1
Isaiah names Cyrus as liberator 150 years before his birth
Latter-day Saints
6 accountsJoseph Smith history
Joseph Smith sees the Father and the Son
3 Nephi 20:6-7
Bread and wine miraculously appear for the sacrament
3 Nephi 7:22
Nephi heals by faith
3 Nephi 28
Three Nephites cannot be killed
Doctrine and Covenants 87
Joseph Smith predicts the American Civil War in 1832, decades before it begins
Sikhism
4 accountsGuru Granth Sahib, Vadda Ghallughara
Guru Gobind Singh foretells the future trials and triumphs of the Sikh people
Janam Sakhis
Guru Nanak's langar (free kitchen) feeds all who come without ever running empty
Janam Sakhis
A cobra spreads its hood to shade the sleeping Guru Nanak from the sun
Janam Sakhis
Guru Nanak receives divine illumination and emerges from the river after three days
Taoism
3 accountsZhuangzi 2
Zhuangzi dreams he is a butterfly — awakening questions the nature of all reality
Daoist texts
Immortals endure fire through alchemical transformation
Liexian Zhuan
Immortal Taoist masters walk through walls and pass through armies unharmed
Zoroastrianism
2 accountsShahnameh / Denkard
The sacred fire of Adur Gushnasp burns without fuel for 700 years, protecting the kingdom
Denkard 7.3
Zarathustra receives direct revelation from Ahura Mazda and speaks with the Amesha Spentas