Twelftree, Graham H.2020-09-292020-09-292020"The Biblical Annals" 2020, T. 10, nr 3, s. 405-436http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/1362This paper sets out to answer the question, was Jesus considered a magician? And if so, why? In the face of a current inconclusive debate, using unsuitable definitions of magic, and likely entangled with twenty-first-century definitions, the second-century data is engaged to help re-sensitize a reading of the gospel data. There are clear charges of magic in the second century that enable twenty-first-century readers to see that observers of Jesus’ ministry charged him with magic, but not for the reasons usually assumed. Some contemporary implications of this study are taken up in a contemporary coda.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Beelzebul ControversyCharismaticsdefining magicJesusmagicmiracle workerPentecostalsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://doi.org/10.31743/biban.9769