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human
I'm pretty sure jesus said every man was capable of his feats, except walking on water that's a translation error
gpt
Not exactly.
Not only  makes a good point, a proper, devoted prayer is not far from meditation - which, when deep and and refined well enough, is the most fundamental and important practice for aspiring occultist. So it's very possible that in a way he was teaching his disciples things (and IIRC there were mentions of some of them learning to do some stuff), it was just all through the religious lens and working with and through greater power which is literally what a discipline of magic known as thaumaturgy depends on.