# Commentary on John Word Study – Signs > *Signs* (Jn 2:11) – *Semeion* (Gk.): a \"sign\" or \"miracle\". The term is used 17 times in John and 60 times in the rest of the NT. Since the signs in the Fourth Gospel are concentrated mainly in chaps. 1-12, the first half of John has been called the \"Book of Signs\". For the evangelist, the signs of Jesus are not just mighty works, but miracles that unveil the glory and power of God working through Christ. The signs of Jesus also recall the signs performed by Moses during the Exodus, signs that likewise revealed the glory of Yahweh (Num 14:22) working through Moses (Ex 3:12; 4:28-31; Deut 34:11). The Fourth Gospel draws attention to seven signs: **(1)** the miracle at Cana (2:1-11), **(2)** the healing of the official\'s son (4:46-54), **(3)** the healing of the paralytic (5:1-9), **(4)** the multiplication of the loaves (6:1-14), **(5)** the restoration of the blind man (9:1-41), **(6)** the raising of Lazarus (11:17-44), and, most important of all, **(7)** the Resurrection of Jesus, which is the second sign mentioned in the Gospel (2:18-22) but the final and climactic sign to be accomplished (20:1-10). Jesus elsewhere calls this the \"sign of the prophet Jonah\" (Mt 12:39). --- > Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch, *The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: New Testament*, Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2010).