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Today's talk comes from Grant Hartraig.

Acts chapter 4, we're going to look at the first 22 verses together today.

And so if you have your copy of scripture, I'd invite you to open there, or you can also

track along on the screens if you'd prefer to do that.

Acts 4, beginning in verse 1.

The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the

Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people.

They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people, proclaiming in

Jesus the resurrection of the dead. And they seized Peter and John. And because it was

evening, they put them in jail until the next day. But many who heard the message believed.

So the number of men who believed grew to about 5,000. That's not including women and children, which is pretty

amazing. The next day, the rulers, the elders, the teachers of the law, met together in Jerusalem.

Annis, the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others of the

high priest's family. They had Peter and John brought before them and began to

question them. They said, by what power or what name did you do this? This referring to the healing

that we talked about of the lame man last week in Acts chapter three. Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit,

said to them, rulers and elders of the people, if we are being called to account today for an act

of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed, then know this.

You and all the people of Israel, it is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,

whom you crucified, but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.

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