Miracles Across Traditions

Exodus 14:21-22

Moses parts the Red Sea

Matthew 14:25

Jesus walks on water

John 2:1-11

Jesus turns water to wine

Quran 54:1-2

Muhammad splits the moon

Bhagavata Purana

Krishna lifts Mount Govardhan to shelter from rain

Anguttara Nikaya

Buddha crosses the Ganges by levitation

Exodus 17:6

Moses strikes the rock for water

Quran 71

Nuh/Noah and the flood

1 Nephi 18

Nephi's ship guided across the ocean

Gospels

Jesus heals the blind, lame, lepers

2 Kings 5

Elisha heals Naaman's leprosy

Sahih Bukhari

Muhammad heals the eyes of Ali

Majjhima Nikaya 86

Buddha heals Angulimala (a serial killer transformed)

Bhagavata Purana

Krishna removes the hunchback Kubja's deformity

John 11

Jesus raises Lazarus

Matthew 28

Jesus is himself resurrected

1 Kings 17:17-24

Elijah raises the widow's son

Ezekiel 37

Ezekiel's valley of dry bones

Quran 3:49

Jesus (Isa) gives life to clay birds, raises the dead

Daniel 3

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace

Revelation 20:10

The two witnesses rise from the dead

Quran 21:68-69

Abraham saved from Nimrod's fire

Bhagavata Purana

Krishna survives the Khandava Forest burning

Lotus Sutra

Bodhisattva emerges unburnt from flames

2 Kings 2:11

Elijah ascends to heaven in a chariot of fire

Acts 1:9

Jesus ascends to heaven before his disciples

Quran 19:57-58

Idris (Enoch) taken to a lofty station

Bhagavata Purana

Krishna ascends in his divine body to heaven

Pali Canon

Arhats levitate and fly through the sky

John 1:1-3

The Word (Logos) becomes flesh

Deuteronomy 34:10

Moses knows God face to face

Quran 42:51-52

Muhammad receives revelation directly from God

Bhagavad Gita 11

Krishna reveals his cosmic form to Arjuna

Pali Canon

Buddha remembers infinite past lives

Numbers 22:28

Balaam's donkey speaks with a human voice

Matthew 17:27

Peter finds a coin in a fish's mouth

Quran 27:16-44

Solomon speaks to ants and birds

Bhagavata Purana 10.6

Krishna kills the demoness Putana who came disguised as a nurse

Jataka Tales

The Bodhisattva communicates with animals and plants in past lives

1 Kings 17:14-16

Elijah's widow's jar of flour and oil never run out

John 6:1-14

Jesus feeds 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish

Sahih Bukhari 56:780

Food multiplies miraculously to feed many during the Battle of the Trench

Mahabharata 3.4

Draupadi's pot of rice miraculously feeds sages and the Pandavas

Divyavadana

The monk Pindola multiplies food to feed the entire sangha

Daniel 6:22

Daniel is unharmed in the lion's den — angels shut the lions' mouths

Acts 12:7-10

An angel opens prison doors and leads Peter to freedom

Quran 8:17

At Badr, angels fight alongside the believers

Bhagavata Purana 7.8

Vishnu appears as Narasimha to protect the devotee Prahlada from his demonic father

Milindapanha

Nagasena extinguishes a fire supernaturally to protect a monastery

Isaiah 44:28, 45:1

Isaiah names Cyrus as liberator 150 years before his birth

Luke 22:34

Jesus predicts Peter's three denials precisely

Quran 30:2-4

Muhammad predicts the Roman victory over Persia within a few years — fulfilled exactly

Mahabharata 6.2

Vyasa foresees and narrates the entire Mahabharata war to his disciples before it happens

Pali Canon, Mahāparinibbāna Sutta

Buddha predicts the exact day and hour of his own death