How The Early Church Used the Name

How the Early Church Used the Name

This is the first recorded miracle in the Name of Jesus. Note how the Scripture reads “On the ground of faith in His Name hath His Name made this man strong, whom ye behold and know. Yea, the faith which is through Him bath given Him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.” Acts 3:16.
For the first time, we come in vital contact with this strange power vested in the Name of Jesus.

This miracle created a sensation; the disciples were arrested, and put in jail until the morrow. Through this miracle, the number of disciples had increased to about five thousand. “And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem; and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, as were the kindred of the high priest.

And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power, or in what name, have ye done this?” Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them, “Ye rulers of the people, and elders, if we this day are examined concerning a good deed done to an impotent man, by what means this man is made whole; be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Whom ye crucified, Whom God raised from the dead, even in Him doth this man stand here before you whole. He is the stone which was set at nought of you the builders, which was made the head of the corner. And in none other is there salvation: for neither is there any other Name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved.” Acts 4:5-12.,