In the book of John, Jesus states that he is the one who is sent from heaven in order to reveal the truth about God and to bring life to the world. Jesus’ miracles, otherwise known as “signs,” thus demonstrate that Jesus is who he says he is. He performs signs so that people may come to believe in him. In John 4:53, Jesus ensures that a father’s son will not die from a fever. In turn, the father and the rest of his household believed that Jesus is in fact the Son of Man. The same result occurs again in John 6:14, John 9:3, John 9:35-38, John 11:14-15, and John 11:44-45. Jesus’ signs made people believe that Jesus “is indeed the prophet who is to come into the world” (John 6:14), that Jesus really is a worker of God (John 9:3), that he is “the Son of Man” (John 9:35-38), and ultimately that what he says is true (John 11:14-15, 44-45). John 20:30-31 wraps it up beautifully. Jesus performed his signs in front of his disciples so that they “may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing [they] may have life in his name” (John 20:30-31). Jesus’ final sign, the resurrection of Lazarus, illustrates Jesus as both the Word and God in the sense that he is the provider of life. Literally bringing Lazarus from death to life emphasized the point that without Jesus, who is both fully man and fully God, there is no life. Everything that ever was came through him and nothing will come into being without him (John 1:3-4). He was there in the beginning, he was with God, and he was both God and the Word (John 1:1-2).