What did Jesus mean by "whoever believes in me will do greater works than I do"? In John 14:12, Jesus says:


  “Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father." [ESV]


One may do a miracle similar to Jesus. But how one can do a miracle greater than that of Jesus? What did He mean by this?
Earlier in John is a verse that could potentially help provide an answer to your question:

Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” - John 6:29 NIV

Another verse in John a little later (after the resurrection) gives further insight:

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” - John 20:29 NIV

This tells us something about God's priorities and what Jesus could possibly mean by &quot;greater works&quot;. With this frame of reference then examples such as Acts 2:41 could be considered as fulfilling this promise:

Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

Peter preaches a sermon and about three thousand people put their faith in Jesus.  To put this in context, Peter is asking them to follow a leader who has been publicly executed in that locality less than two months previously and they themselves weren't witnesses of a resurrected Christ.