A Miracle Story

Acts 3:1-4:4 | Andrew Murch | In these early chapters of Acts, we are given a picture of the life of the early church in Jerusalem, and the popular support for it that continued to increase despite the simultaneously growing opposition to it on the part of the Jewish officials. As we turn to chapter three, we see a mighty work and the mighty word. Peter and John perform a healing which prompts preaching. Both of which lead to the preachers being brought before Jewish authorities. In general, Luke goes back and forth between relating, on the one hand, the public life and controversies of the early Christians with outsiders and, on the other, telling of the interior life and difficulties within the community itself. The healing of the lame man at the temple received much publicity and triggered a series of events involving serious opposition to the gospel.