It's interesting that the more divorced the story is from credible independent verification, the bigger the miracles become.
In the OT, at some unrecorded date: there were plagues, floods, parted seas, cities laid waste and walls crumbled. The sun stood still in the sky while food fell from the heavens.
In the NT, at a known date but with only internal references: diseases are cured, water is walked upon or turned to wine, men are raised from the dead or return from it, food magically goes a long way.
In the early CE, known dates mostly but still lacking external confirmation: men have visions and are inspired to write (Paul, John), people are cured, a few a struck ill, believers are killed but die poignantly.
In the late CE, known dates and plenty of records and media to corroborate: holy figures appear on toast or in the form of snack foods, people are unverifiably cured of inapparent maladies, people praying for parking spaces or a prom dress in the right size find them, people praying for food or release from imprisonment and torture don't.
The greater the miracle, the more vague is the documentation of it. Almost as though the story has expanded to fill the gap left by lack of evidence.
Funny that.
