It will help to remember what those words miraculous and supernatural mean.  Miraculous means something wonderful, that is, something filling us with wonder because it is so unusual.  Supernatural means something above the usual natural order.  The two words are commonly taken as having one meaning.  Neither word means something contrary to nature, of course, but simply on a higher level than the ordinary workings of nature with which we are familiar.  The action is in accord with some higher law in God’s world which is brought into play and is seen to be superior to the familiar laws.

But the power, or the man that can call this higher law into action, is of a higher order.  There is revealed an intimacy of acquaintance with these higher laws, and even more a power that can command and call them into action down in the sphere of our common ordinary life, until we stare in wonder.  This is really the remarkable thing.  Not supernatural action itself simply, tremendous as that is, but the man in such touch with higher power as to be able to call out the action, and to command it at will.

This is one of the things that marks Jesus off so strikingly from other holy men.  There are miracles in the Old Testament and in the Book of Acts.  But there’s an abundance and a degree of power in Jesus’ miracles outclassing all others.  It is fascinating and awesome to watch the growth of power in these movements of Jesus.  It is as though He woos more persistently in the very degree and variety of power that He uses so freely, and with such apparent ease.

Which calls out greater power, creating or healing? making water into wine or healing bodily ailment?  Which is the greater, power in the realm of nature or the body? or in the realm of the human will? multiplying food or changing a human will?  Which is greater, to induce a man voluntarily to change his course of action, or to restrain him (by moral power only, not by force) from doing something he is dead-set on doing?

This is the range through which Jesus’ action runs in these fifteen incidents.  Is there a growth in the power revealed?  Is there an intenser plea to these men as the story goes on?  Is there a steady piling up of evidence in the wooing of their hearts?

Well, creating is bringing into material being what didn’t so exist before.  Healing does something more.  It creates new tissue, makes new or different adjustments and conditions, and it overcomes the opposite, the broken tissue, the diseased conditions, the weakness, the tendency towards decay and death.  Clearly there’s a greater task in healing, and a greater power at work, or more power, or power revealed more.

Then, too, of course, the human is above the physical.  Man is higher than nature.  He is the lord of creation.  It is immensely more to affect a human will than to affect conditions in nature.  The whole thing moves up to a measureless higher level.  And clearly enough it is a less difficult task to enlighten and persuade one who seeks the light, and to woo up one who is simply carelessly indifferent, than it is to overcome and restrain a will that is dead-set against you and is bitterly set on an opposite course.