Our prophets did all this and more
The Pythia is recorded to have once given oracles even after she had been bribed. But our prophets were admired for the clear truth of what they said, not only by the people of their own day but in later times as well. For through the oracles the prophets gave, cities were restored, men were made well, and famines came to an end. Indeed, the whole nation of the Jews plainly went out as a colony from Egypt to Palestine in keeping with oracles; when it carried out what God commanded, it prospered, and when it went astray, it repented. Why need I tell how many rulers and how many private persons, according to the histories of Scripture, fared better or worse by heeding the prophecies or neglecting them?
And if we must speak of childlessness too, and of those who, distressed at it, became fathers or mothers after sending up their prayers about it to the Maker of the universe, let anyone read the story of Abraham and Sarah, from whom Isaac was born when they were already old (Genesis 21:1–7), the father of the whole Jewish nation and of others besides. Let him read also the story of Hezekiah, who not only gained release from his illness in keeping with the prophecies of Isaiah (Isaiah 38:1–8), but also said with confidence: “For from now on I will beget children, who will declare your righteousness” (Isaiah 38:19). And in the second book of Kings, the woman who received Elisha, after he had prophesied by the grace of God that a child would be born, became a mother in answer to Elisha’s prayers (2 Kings 4:8–17).
Besides, countless maimings were healed by Jesus. And others who dared, at the temple in Jerusalem, to outrage the Jewish worship suffered what is recorded in the books of the Maccabees (2 Maccabees 3:24–28).
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Ἡ μὲν Πυθία ἱστόρηται ὅτι καὶ νοθευθεῖσα ἔχρησέ ποτε· οἱ δὲ παρ᾿ ἡμῖν προφῆται οὐ μόνον ὑπὸ τῶν κατ᾿ αὐτοὺς ἐθαυμάσθησαν διὰ τὴν ἐνάργειαν τῶν λεγομένων ὑπ᾿ αὐτῶν ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἑξῆς χρόνοις. ἐκ γὰρ ὧν ἔχρησαν οἱ προφῆται καὶ πόλεις ὠρθώθησαν καὶ ἄνθρωποι ὑγιάσθησαν καὶ λιμοὶ ἐπαύσαντο. ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς ἀποικίαν σαφῶς τὴν ἀπ᾿ Αἰγύπτου εἰς τὴν Παλαιστίνην κατὰ χρησμοὺς ἐλήλυθεν ὅλον τὸ Ἰουδαίων ἔθνος· ὅπερ μετελθὸν μὲν τὰ προσταχθέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ εὐδαιμόνησε σφαλὲν δὲ μετέγνω. τί δὲ δεῖ λέγειν ὅσοι δυνάσται καὶ ὅσοι ἰδιῶται κατὰ τὰς ἱστορίας τῆς γραφῆς ἄμεινον ἢ χεῖρον προσέχοντες ταῖς προφητείαις ἢ ἀμελήσαντες ἀπήλλαξαν; εἰ δὲ καὶ περὶ ἀπαιδίας δεῖ λέγειν, ἐφ᾿ ᾗ δυσφοροῦντές τινες γεγόνασι πατέρες ἢ μητέρες, τὰς περὶ τούτου εὐχὰς ἀναπέμψαντες τῷ τῶν ὅλων δημιουργῷ, ἀναγνώτω τις τὰ περὶ τοῦ Ἀβραὰμ καὶ τῆς Σάῤῥας, ἐξ ὧν γέγονεν Ἰσαὰκ ἤδη γεγηρακότων. ὁ παντὸς τοῦ Ἰουδαίων ἔθνους πατὴρ καὶ ἑτέρων παρὰ τούτους. ἀναγνώτω δὲ καὶ τὰ περὶ Ἰεζεκίου, οὐ μόνον ἀπαλλαγὴν νόσου λαβόντος κατὰ τὰς Ἡσαΐου προφητείας ἀλλὰ καὶ τεθαῤῥηκότως εἰπόντος τό· „ἀπὸ γὰρ τοῦ νῦν παιδία ποιήσω. ἃ ἀναγγελεῖ τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου.“ καὶ ἐν τῇ τετάρτῃ δὲ τῶν Βασιλειῶν ἡ ὑποδεξαμένη τὸν Ἐλισσαῖον, χάριτι θεοῦ προφητεύσαντα περὶ γενέσεως παιδὸς, κατὰ τὰς εὐχὰς τοῦ Ἐλισσαίου γέγονε μήτηρ. ἀλλὰ καὶ πηρώσεις ἰάθησαν μυρίαι ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ. καὶ ἄλλοι πρὸς τῷ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις ἱερῷ τολμήσαντες ὑβρίσαι τὴν Ἰουδαϊκὴν θρησκείαν πεπόνθασι τὰ ἀναγεγραμμένα ἐν τοῖς Μακκαβαϊκοῖς.