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I think it's more likely that those miracles were invented for propaganda reasons in the period between the crucification and when the New Testament was finalized. For instance there's a whole lot of apocryphal texts (e.g. [1]) about Jesus as a child where he performed all sorts of miracles, but I guess those were considered a bit too over the top even for 1st millenium standards and thus hadn't been included in the official Bible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infancy_Gospel_of_Thomas

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In Jesus' time and region there were miracle workers by the hundreds, and he was just seen as another one of them. They travelled form village to village performing miracles in exchange for, I guess, money and food. If I'm not mistaken, on what I read about the historical Jesus, the difference was that he didn't charge for the miracles, but I could be wrong here, don't remember much.
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> a whole lot of apocryphal texts (e.g. [1])

> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infancy_Gospel_of_Thomas

How does the cited source differ from apocryphal texts; how is it more than a modern apocryphal text on a modern medium?

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