A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS

                                                            PART IV - III

"When I, Peter, woke up this morning, I realised something.... I realised I was not at home... I was in prison....I then rememered I had been put in jail the night before..... The reason I had been put in prison was the fact that I had been preaching the truth about the Lord Jesus.... And some religous leaders had become very upset with the message I had preached.... So they had decided to silence my by putting me in prison....I realised as well that I was not alone.... John was here with me.... We wondered what would happen to us next..... We did not have to wait long to find out....For we were taken before the religious leaders..... There were some well known people among them.... Jesus had come before some of them as well... They were Annas and Caiaphas.... They had some questions they wanted to ask us."..... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn what happens with Peter and John after their night in jail....

 

                   ATTACHMENT A WALK THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS

                                                       PART IV - IIII

The religious leaders kept Peter and John in jail overnight but saw them the next morning when they began to question them as you can read in Acts 4:5-7

The next day the rulers, elders and teachers of the law met in Jerusalem. Annas the high priest was there, and so were Caiaphas, John , Alexander and the other men of the high priest's family. They had Peter and John brought before them and began to question them: "By what power or what name did you do this"?

The religious leaders fully expected these two men to have learned their lesson after a night in jail and to be willing to tone down their message. After all, these men had been so afraid of them in the past and had shown that by hiding behind locked doors. But these religious leaders did not realise how great a change had taken place in the lives of these two men when they had been empowered by the Holy Spirit at the Day of Pentecost Consequently, they were no longer the fearful people they had been at that time but they had become a fearless people. The religious leaders may well have expected Peter and John to apologise for their behaviour of the day before and to promise to never act in that way again.