Hi! and happy good mid-week to all of us, GUYS. For our "daily bread" today:
THE GOOD NEWS (30 March 2016)
"Once when Peter and John were going up to the Temple at three in the afternoon, the hour of prayer, a man crippled from birth was being carried in. Every day they would bring him and put him at the temple gate called 'Beautiful'; there he begged from those who entered the Temple.
When he saw Peter and John on their way into the Temple, he asked for alms. Then Peter with John at his side looked straight at him and said, 'Look at us.' So he looked at them, expecting to receive something from them. But Peter said, 'I have neither silver nor gold, but what I have I give you: In the name of JESUS of Nazareth, the Messiah, walk!'
Then he took the beggar by his right hand and helped him up. At once his feet and ankles became firm, and jumping up he stood on his feet and began to walk. And he went with them into the Temple walking and leaping and praising GOD.
All the people saw him walking and praising GOD; they recognized him as the one who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, and they were all astonished and amazed at what had happened to him." - Acts 3:1-10
(We might sometimes think that JESUS cured all the sick. This is not true, since HE did not heal this cripple who was in the Temple every day. This new sign brings about another proclamation.
Why are you amazed at this? The miracle was done in the Name of JESUS, that is, by the Power over every creature that JESUS received from the FATHER at the time of HIS resurrection. JESUS was in their midst as the servant of the LORD [Isaiah 42:1; 52:13], but speaking of HIS Name was a way of stating HIS divinity [Mark 16:17; Philippians 2:9].)
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