WeekLy BooK oF Acts 4 1-22

  a paraphrased study

(Review, a man at the temple was healed.) 1 - And as Peter and John were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came out, 2 greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people, proclaiming in Jesus’ name the resurrection from the dead. 3 So they arrested them and put them under custody until the next day, for by then, it was already evening. 4 But many of those who had heard the message believed, and the number of believers came to about five thousand.

     5 On the next day the rulers and elders and scribes (the leaders) gathered together in Jerusalem, 6 with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. 7 And when they had brought them to the court, they said, “By what power, or by what name, did you do this?” 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit(/Presence of God) said to them, “Leaders and rulers of the people, and elders, 9 if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man (who had been “crippled from birth”) concerning by what means this man has been healed, 10 let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth - whom you crucified, and God raised from the dead - by him, this man is standing and upright before you. 11 This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, the stone which has become the cornerstone [quoting Ps.118:22]. 12 And - there is salvation in no one else. For there is no other name under heaven, named among men, by which we must be saved.” [From death, opposite of Life/God who “is perfect”. And from death’s cause, imperfection, an abyss of potential.]

     13 Now when the leaders/rulers saw the boldness of Peter and John, and knew that they were uneducated and common, they were astonished. They also knew they had been with Jesus. 14 But seeing the man who was healed standing beside them, they could say nothing. 15 When they had ordered them outside the council, they conferred with one another, 16 saying, “What shall we do with these men? For a notable sign, we cannot deny, has been performed through them, and it is evident to everyone in Jerusalem. 17 But in order that it may spread no further among the people, we will warn them to speak no more in this name!” 18 So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered, “Whether it’s right in the sight of God to hear you rather than God, you must judge, 20 but we cannot help but speak of what we have seen and heard.”

     21 And when they threatened them further, they let them go, finding no way to hold them because of the people, as all were praising God for what had happened. 22 For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.

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