A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS
PART IV - II
"I, Peter, stood together with John and the previously crippled beggar... We had a large crowd in front of us.... They had all witnessed the miraculous healing of the crippled beggar....We had begun to talk to them about the One who was responsible for the healing... Other people joined the crowd as we were speaking..... They were important people... Among them were Sadducees.... They listened to us... But it was clear from the expression on their faces that they were not impressed with our message....On the contrary.... They seemed to be very upset with our message....So they did not allow us to speak much longer.... In fact, they took us away..... And they did what I had feared so much in the past.... They put us in jail."..... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Peter and John experienced something they used to fear greatly....
ATTACHMENT A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS
PART IV - II
Some important people, including religious leaders, had joined the crowd that was listening to Peter and John. However, they did not seem to care that this crippled beggar had been healed that day. Instead, their only concern seemed to have been with the preaching of Peter and John.They were in fact so discturbed about the things the apostles were saying that these men decided Peter and John had to be silenced and the only way they knew to do this was by having them put in jail as you can read in Acts 4:3
They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day.
The very thing Peter and John had feared in the past and had been the reason they had hidden themselves behind locked doors, had happened; they had been put in prison. But this time they were no longer afraid for they had been empowered by the Holy Spirit at the Day of Pentecost not so long ago and the Holy Spirit had caused them to become a changed people, who were no longer fearful.
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