When we come to this portion, it was the job of the priests to teach the people, so they didn’t like it when the apostles taught them. “The captain of the temple” was supposed to keep everyone but priests out of the temple , but the leaders in Israel used them and their weapons as “muscle” to arrest the Lord and the apostles here. So the captain didn’t like the apostles preaching Christ, for it made him look bad for arresting Him. And “the Sadducees” didn’t like it when they preached “the resurrection” because they didn’t believe in the resurrection.
Peter was explaining to the religious leadership that it was by the name of Jesus of Nazareth that the lame man was healed of his congenital deformity. Jesus whom they had crucified but whom God raised from the dead was alive and well and at work in the world by his Holy Spirit. The one they had rejected, – most of those men to whom Peter had been speaking had been involved in the crime of the Lord’s murder – the Author of life, is nothing less than the hope of salvation for every human being on the face of the earth. The galactic blunder of these men was that they rejected, indeed had murdered the only one who could get them to heaven!
Speaker: Prithvi G
Scripture: Acts 4:1-12
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