It is by the name of Jesus Christ

Acts 4:1-22

By what power or what name did you do this? Peter said to them:” It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.”

Peter and John were unschooled, ordinary men, but they saw them the courage and the man who had been healed standing there with them, there was nothing they could say.

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.

Judge yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey you rather than God. For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.

Despite the arrest of Peter and John, numbers continue to grow. The Council may warn, but the apostles cannot stop speaking.

Why?

It is the teaching, centring on the risen Christ, which annoys the Sadducees- naturally enough, since they denied the possibility of resurrection.

The resurrection was at the heart of the Christian message from the beginning.

Unschooled, ordinary men can heal a cripple, and speaking about the resurrection made five thousand people believed in Jesus. It is the Holy Spirit with them, so they have wisdom and courage to speak Jesus Christ.

How?

I cannot help speaking about what it have been done on me from the Lord. Jesus Christ is the Lord. It is by the name of Jesus Christ