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Jesus of Nazareth turned the water into wine at Canaan, and fed 5,000 people with no more loaves and fishes than you can count on two hands – maybe fewer. Before that, he was born of a virgin. The prophet Mohammed refused to perform miracles in order to ‘prove’ the truth of his message, although some regard his renowned Night Journey as a teleportation from Mecca to Jerusalem. Others insist this was a spiritual journey – and not to Jerusalem, but to a mystical ‘highest horizon’; in any case, the miracle, if such it was, was performed upon the Prophet, not some supernormal act of his own that affected someone else, and thus was unlike Jesus’s raising of Lazarus from the dead.