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Scott's Reference Library
Acts 4:5 through Acts 4:12 (NIV)
5The next day the rulers, elders and teachers of the law met in Jerusalem.
6Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander and the
other men of the high priest’s family. 7They had Peter and John brought before
them and began to question them: “By what power or what name did you do this?”
8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: “Rulers and elders of
the people! 9If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness
shown to a cripple and are asked how he was healed, 10then know this, you and
all the people of Israel: 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. 11He is
“‘the stone you builders rejected,
which has become the capstone.’
12Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven
given to men by which we must be saved.”
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 5-14
Peter being filled with the Holy Ghost, would have all to understand, that the
miracle had been wrought by the name, or power, of Jesus of Nazareth, the
Messiah, whom they had crucified; and this confirmed their testimony to his
resurrection from the dead, which proved him to be the Messiah. These rulers
must either be saved by that Jesus whom they had crucified, or they must perish
for ever. The name of Jesus is given to men of every age and nation, as that
whereby alone believers are saved from the wrath to come. But when covetousness,
pride, or any corrupt passion, rules within, men shut their eyes, and close
their hearts, in enmity against the light; considering all as ignorant and
unlearned, who desire to know nothing in comparison with Christ crucified. And
the followers of Christ should act so that all who converse with them, may take
knowledge that they have been with Jesus. That makes them holy, heavenly,
spiritual, and cheerful, and raises them above this world.