“But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,/Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it.”
John and Peter healed a beggar lame of foot and it was such a wondrous act that some five thousand of men believed when they preached ‘through Jesus the resurrection from the dead.’. For this they were hauled up for an explanation before the council, and their defense made their interrogators all the more angry. Why should the name of Jesus Christ elicit such a violent emotion among their rulers, and elders, and scribes?
Peter spoke: “Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye…
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