Acts 4 - The power of Words
Speaking God's Word is the most powerful thing you can do. Are you bold enough to do so?
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Acts 4 (ESV)
1 And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,
2 greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.
3 And they
arrested them
and put them in custody
until the next day,
for it was already evening.
4 But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.
5 On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes 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 set them in the midst, they inquired,
“By
what power
or by what name
did you do this?”
8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders,
9 if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man,
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,
whom God raised from the dead—
by him
this man is standing before you well.
11 This Jesus
is the stone
that was rejected by you, the builders,
which has become the cornerstone.
12 And there is salvation in no one else,
for there is no other name
under heaven
given among men
by which we must be saved.”
13 Now when
they saw the boldness of Peter and John,
and perceived that they were uneducated, common men,
they were astonished.
And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.
14 But
seeing the man who was healed standing beside them,
they had nothing to say in opposition.
15 But when they had commanded them to leave the council, they conferred with one another, 16 saying,
“What shall we do with these men?
For that a notable sign has been performed through them
is evident to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and we cannot deny it.
17 But
in order that it may spread no further among the people,
let us warn them to speak no more to anyone 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 them,
“Whether it is right in the sight of God
to listen to you
rather than to God,
you must judge,
20 for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”
21 And when they had further threatened them,
they let them go,
finding no way to punish them,
because of the people,
for all were praising God for what had happened.
22 For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
23 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.
24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said,
“Sovereign Lord,
who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them,
25 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit,
“ ‘Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
26 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers were gathered together,
against the Lord