06.18.2014 New Testament: Acts 3.12–16

To read the Bible in a year, read Acts 3 on June 18, In the year of our Lord 2014

By Don Ruhl

Peter and John healed a lame man, and when the people saw the man walking, leaping, and praising God, they were amazed and ran toward Peter and John. Peter used this opportunity to preach,

So when Peter saw it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let Him go. But you denied the Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. And His name, through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all” (Acts 3.12–16). 

Peter quickly drew their attention away from himself and from John, and put it on God and Jesus, reminding the people that they had crucified Jesus, but that it was faith in the name of the One they crucified that healed this man.