Elisha and the Six Miracles
2 Kings 4-6
Artist: Donald Jackson, in collaboration with Aidan Hart

Having taken on Elijah’s mantle, Elisha crosses over the River Jordan into Israel and continues working miracles on behalf of God. Elisha produced abundant jars of oil in order to save a widow’s children from being sold into slavery, restored to life a child dead from sunstroke, cast out poison from a pot of stew, fed one hundred people with twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain, cured the leprosy of Naaman, and retrieved an iron ax head from the bottom of the Jordan.

Moving from the left, the illumination shows abundant loaves, flowing jars of oil, the child raised under the shadow of Elisha’s mantle, microscopic view of mycobacterium leprae, and the floating ax head. Gilded gateway motifs rest along the top of the image offering welcome, direction, and passage through which the love and power of God may flow down.

Elisha and the Six Miracles, Donald Jackson, 2010 The Saint John’s Bible, Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota. Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Catholic Edition, © 1993, 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the Unites States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.