Naked Bible 41: Acts 3

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 20 March 2015

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

There are two focus points in this episode. The first is Acts 3:6, specifically the concept of the “name” and the NT understanding of the term “Christ” (Greek: Christos). Is the term merely an adjective ("anointed")? Is it a proper name, like a last name? Or is it a title—and if so, who can bear that title? The second is Acts 3:18, where Peter claims, via the words of Luke, that “what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.” The concept of a suffering messiah (mashiach) is not found in any verse in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. Peter does not cite a specific verse from the Hebrew Bible here, but makes a blanket statement, as though to say that, as a collective whole, the Old Testament points to a suffering messiah. How is this possible? Here is the paper referenced in the show: Christ - Anchor-Yale Bible Dictionary

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0:00.0	Welcome to the NECKET Bible Podcast episode 41 at 3 on Resident
0:28.9	Laman Trace Trichland and he's the scholar Dr. Michael Heizer. How are you? Very good. Very good.
0:35.4	I'd like to be back again. Good deal. Well, we got a lot of positive feedback from our Q and A
0:39.8	episodes, so that was good. Well, I was good. You know, I only had four questions, but as one email
0:47.0	I referred to, at least one of them as an epic rabbit trail, I guess, you know, it served the
0:51.4	purpose. Absolutely. Well, good. Well, this week we're going to jump right into Acts 3.
0:56.4	All right, well, what I'm going to do, we're going to, I'm going to read through the whole chapter.
1:00.6	We'll just take a few minutes to do that in case people are listening and don't have a copy of
1:05.1	the Bible with them. And then I want to focus on two items in the chapter and I'll tell people
1:11.4	what those are after we're done reading. So in Acts chapter 3, we read, now Peter and John,
1:18.2	we're going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour, and a man lame from birth was
1:24.4	being carried whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the beautiful gate
1:29.8	to ask alms of those entering the temple. Seeing Peter and John go about to go into the temple,
1:36.1	he asked to receive alms. And Peter directed his gaze at him as did John and said, look at us.
1:43.8	And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them. But Peter said,
1:49.2	I have no silver and gold, but what I do have, I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
1:55.8	rise up and walk. And he took him by the right hand and raised him up and immediately his feet
2:01.7	and ankles were made strong. And leaping, he stood and began to walk and entered the temple with them,
2:08.2	walking and leaping and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God and
2:12.7	recognized him as the one who sat at the beautiful gate of the temple asking for alms. And they
2:19.2	were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. While he clung to Peter and
2:24.5	John, all the people utterly astounded ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's. And when
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