The authorities were more than curious to know by who’s name and who’s power Peter and John had healed the man who had never walked…

Peter was adamant and full of the power of the Holy Spirit said all was done in the NAME of JESUS. The same JESUS they had crucified and killed, who rose from the dead on the third day, as He himself had predicted.

JESUS was the rejected one, the dethroned king and the humiliated Lord of heaven and earth. Now He is the crucial and load-bearing Cornerstone. Now He is exalted above all and the only one who can save from sin and certain punishment. Only the Lord Jesus can give strength to break the power of sin in our lives and give the desire to vehemently stay away from it.

The authorities had murdered the only Saviour, denigrated him to suffer complete shame, but now the rejected one is their only hope in the face of life and death.

The seemingly weak man was now stronger than any force imaginable, and far above any NAME that has ever or will ever be named…

JESUS, our Saviour and the love of all His redeemed people…