Acts 4:5-12 Peter Addresses the Sanhedrin

On the next day, their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem;  and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of high-priestly descent.  When they had placed them in the center, they began to inquire, “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”  Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people,  if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well,  let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by this name this man stands here before you in good health.  He is the stone which was rejected by you, the builders, but which became the chief corner stone. And there is salvation in no one else; for there is no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved.”

What happened to Jesus is now happening to His disciples.  Peter speaks to the rulers of the Temple.  He and John were arrested for healing a man at the gate of the Temple and they ask how he did it.  Peter, once again, filled with the Holy Spirit, tells them in the name of Jesus of Nazareth whom they crucified has made him whole.  He also questions why he was arrested for making a man who was lame well?  So often Jesus healed people, in His case on the Sabbath, and Jesus said the Sabbath was made for doing well.

Daily Prayer:  Lord Jesus, there will be times that we are persecuted for being your followers.  In those times, fill us with the Holy Spirit so we can speak boldly and save some.  In Your holy name I pray Amen.