Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders of Israel: (9) If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well, (10) let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. (11) This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ (12) Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

The book, Acts of the Apostles, was written by Luke and stands as the one historical document chronicling the founding of Christ’s church and it’s early growth – a record of apostolic success through the power of the Holy Spirit. In chapter 4 of Acts we have just learned that God had used Peter and John to heal a 40 year old begger, lame from birth and well known to the people of Jerusalem. No one questioned that this man prior to his interaction with the apostles was lame and the spectacle of the healed man leaping about drew a crowd resulting in the arrest of Peter and John. The next day they were brought in front of the Sanhedrin basically to answer by what authority they had healed this man. The Sanhedrin was the senate and Supreme Court of Israel; they were the wealthiest, most intellectual, most powerful men in Israel and in our verses today we read that Peter, an untrained fisherman, ended up standing before them as judge, not victim.
At the arraignment Peter boldly, by the Spirit, put the Sanhedrin on trial; it was not a crime to do a good deed but rather the Sanhedrin had crucified Christ who had been raised from the dead and in whose name the lame man had been healed. It is important to realize here that neither on this occasion or on any recorded subsequent occasion did the Sanhedrin take any serious action to disprove the apostolic CENTRAL affirmation which is the resurrection from the dead of Christ Jesus. This doctrine of resurrection of the Christ did not lead people away from God but fulfilled what God through His prophets had predicted. The rulers of Israel had rejected their Messiah.
The healing action in question was done in the name of Jesus – in Jesus alone there is salvation. Salvation is never by Buddhists, nor Muslims; not in Catholics piling up good deeds; not by ceremonies or good works or anything done by man. Salvation through faith in Christ Jesus alone is what Jesus and the apostles proclaimed.

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