Lesson 11

Acts 4:1-12
Peter and John Arrested

4:1-3
And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, being grieved* that they taught* the people, and preached* through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.

Grieved*
1. to work out laboriously, make complete by labour
2. to exert one's self, strive
3. to manage with pains, accomplish with great labour
4. to be troubled, displeased, offended, pained, to be worked up

Taught*
1. to teach
2. to hold discourse with others in order to instruct them, deliver didactic discourses
3. to be a teacher
4. to discharge the office of a teacher, conduct one's self as a teacher
5. to teach one
6. to impart instruction
7. instill doctrine into one
8. the thing taught or enjoined
9. to explain or expound a thing
10. to teach one something

Preached*
to announce, declare, promulgate, make known to proclaim publicly, publish to denounce, report, betray


4:4
Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed*; and the number of the men was about five thousand.

Believed*
1. to think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in
of the thing believed
2. to credit, have confidence
in a moral or religious reference
3. used in the NT of the conviction and trust to which a man is impelled by a certain inner and higher prerogative and law of soul
4. to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something: saving faith 1bc) mere acknowledgment of some fact or event: intellectual faith
5. to entrust a thing to one, i.e. his fidelity
6. to be intrusted with a thing

4:5-6 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes, and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred* of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem.

Kindred*
1. kindred
2. offspring
3. family
4. stock, tribe, nation
5.i.e. nationality or descent from a particular people
the aggregate of many individuals of the same nature, kind, sort

4:7
And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power*, or by what name, have ye done this?

Power*
1. strength power, ability
2.inherent power, power residing in a thing by virtue of its nature, or which a person or thing exerts and puts forth
3. power for performing miracles
4. moral power and excellence of soul
5. the power and influence which belong to riches and wealth
6. power and resources arising from numbers
7. power consisting in or resting upon armies, forces, hosts

4:8-12
Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole.* Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation* in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved

Whole*
1. to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction
2. one (from injury or peril)
3. to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health
4.to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue
5. to save in the technical biblical sense
negatively 1b
6. to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment
7. to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance

Salvation
1. deliverance, preservation, safety, salvation
2. deliverance from the molestation of enemies
in an ethical sense, that which concludes to the souls safety or salvation
of Messianic salvation
3. salvation as the present possession of all true Christians
future salvation, the sum of benefits and blessings which the Christians, redeemed from all earthly ills, will enjoy after the visible return of Christ from heaven in the consummated and eternal kingdom of God.
4. Fourfold salvation: saved from the penalty, power, presence and most importantly the pleasure of sin. A. W. Pink

Save
1. to save, keep safe and sound, to rescue from danger or destruction
one (from injury or peril)
2. to save a suffering one (from perishing), i.e. one suffering from disease, to make well, heal, restore to health
3. to preserve one who is in danger of destruction, to save or rescue
4. to save in the technical biblical sense
negatively
5. to deliver from the penalties of the Messianic judgment 1b
6. to save from the evils which obstruct the reception of the Messianic deliverance



Let’s Take A Closer Look

In using a concordance sometimes it gives more than one meaning to a word. So in most cases one can know which meaning goes for the word that is being used in the verse.

Sometimes we think we know what a word means but it turns out to be something different or more to the meaning than we thought so that is why I decided to use the concordance and will from now on.

Question
What stands out most to you when you read these verses?
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Acts 4:1-12
New Living Translation (NLT)

Acts 4
Peter and John before the Council
1 While Peter and John were speaking to the people, they were confronted by the priests, the captain of the Temple guard, and some of the Sadducees. 2 These leaders were very disturbed that Peter and John were teaching the people that through Jesus there is a resurrection of the dead. 3 They arrested them and, since it was already evening, put them in jail until morning. 4 But many of the people who heard their message believed it, so the number of believers now totaled about 5,000 men, not counting women and children.[a]
5 The next day the council of all the rulers and elders and teachers of religious law met in Jerusalem. 6 Annas the high priest was there, along with Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and other relatives of the high priest. 7 They brought in the two disciples and demanded, “By what power, or in whose name, have you done this?”

8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of our people, 9 are we being questioned today because we’ve done a good deed for a crippled man? Do you want to know how he was healed? 10 Let me clearly state to all of you and to all the people of Israel that he was healed by the powerful name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene,[b] the man you crucified but whom God raised from the dead. 11 For Jesus is the one referred to in the Scriptures, where it says,

‘The stone that you builders rejected
has now become the cornerstone.’[c]

12 There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.”

Footnotes:
a.Acts 4:4 Greek 5,000 adult males.
b.Acts 4:10 Or Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
c.Acts 4:11 Ps 118:22.


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Question
What stands out most to you when you read these verses?I want to tell you what point that stands out the most to me as I study these verses. It is the fact that the precious name of Jesus is the only name in which

there is salvation. There isn't any other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Beleave upon the name of Jesus Christ and you shall be saved.

Salvation is NOT found in a religion or good works, but in a Person... The LORD JESUS CHRIST

A. C. T.

A- Accept Jesus as your personal Savior.

C.-Confess your sins to God and tell others how great He is.

T- Trust God to change you into the person that He wants you to be. This is the hardest part of being a Christian!

We are all sinners and need Gods forgiveness!

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/how_to_be_saved.html