- Synagogues
- “First churches”
- Beit = house of assembly = synagogue
- Ekklesia = assembly rather than church
- Greek term “kyriake” meaning “belonging to the Lord” — we got the name church
- Prayers in synagogue
- Lord’s Prayer added to their prayers
- Tomb of David
- Peter referred to this tomb in his sermon in (Acts 2:29)
- Destroyed during the burning of Jerusalem 70 A.D.
- All Jewish people expelled during second revolt 132 – 135 A.D.
- Gentile believers could return but not Jewish believers
- Bombing of Jerusalem during the War of 1967
- Synagogue discovered by tomb of David
- Dismissed as it does not point to temple
- This dismissed because temple does not exist at the time of building
- Grafitti on walls
- (NCBI) conquer, savior, mercy
- O Jesus that I may live — O Lord of the autocrat
- The Sermon (Acts 3:12 – 26)
- Man healed who was lame since birth
- Jesus walked by this person many times
- (John 5:19) Jesus could only do what he saw his father doing
- There was a timing to the miracle that God wanted
- Peter seized this timing and began to speak to the people in the temple
- Peter denies any power of his own did this (Vs 11 – 13)
- He claims Jesus did the healing not the Holy Spirit.. This stopped any confusion on their part.
- Peter retells the story of the crucifixion (Vs 14 – 16)
- This time he is more direct at pointing out those who killed Jesus
- Peter’s five names for Jesus
- The Servant (Vs 13)
- (Isaiah 52:13) Behold my servant will prosper he will be high and lifted up and greatly exalted
- Holy One (Vs 14)
- Holy one often spoken as a title for God
- Righteous One (Vs 14)
- Righteous one is one who is sinless
- Prince of Life (Vs 15)
- Close to Prince of peace from Isaiah 9:5, but life showing he is over the grave
- Anointed One (Vs 18)
- (Psalm 2:2) The Lord and his anointed One
- The Servant (Vs 13)
- He must suffer (Vs 17, 18)
- Again they did it in ignorance, but it fulfilled the prophecies of the suffering Messiah
- Repentance and Messianic — era. 19 – 21
- Repentance will result in the return of messiah
- Doubtful many of these people were in the crowd to crucify Jesus, but we are all guilty of this crime
- Jesus is fulfillment of prophet like Moses in vs 22, 23 (Deuteronomy 18: 18, 19)
- Promise to Abraham and confirmed through all the prophets (Vs 24 – 26)
- Don’t know if Peter understood this verse meant Gentiles until it unfolded in front of him later in Acts
- Not a lot of love lost for the Gentiles
- The Opposition
- Believers grew 40% as they went from 3,000 to 5,000 believers (Vs 1 – 4)
- While this is happening, temple guards come out and arrest Peter and John
- Members of the Sanhedrin wanted to see the apostles and the man that was healed (Vs 4 – 6)
- Annas political appointment by Rome
- Family monopolized the priesthood until the year 66
- Caiaphas son in law to Annas
- Served until 36 and tomb was discovered in the 1990’s
- John and Alexander who we don’t know anything about, but they were the people who crucified Jesus
- They were Sadducees (Acts 5:17) who’re probably bringing them in for preaching about the resurrection
- Annas political appointment by Rome
- The inquiry had to be about the resurrection because they were not guilty of breaking any law (Vs 7 – 10)
- They probably did not fear because Jesus warned them this would happen and the Holy Spirit would give them the words to say (Matthew 10:19, 20)
- Peter points out the trial is because they did a good deed to a man (Vs 8, 9)
- Proclaims resurrection in front of those who do not believe in the resurrection (Vs 10)
- The rejected stone
- Jesus claimed that he was a stone that they were rejecting (Matthew 21:42.)
- Now Peter is claiming that the stone they rejected is the cornerstone
- Theory of the cornerstone
- Jesus name means salvation (Vs 12)
- Jesus was a common name then so the thought here is that the person of Jesus is the Messiah.
- The education of these men astounded the Sanhedrin (Vs 13)
- Damage control (14 – 18)
- Stop speaking because you are speaking of the resurrection
- You are making our control slip
- You are charging us with the murder of this holy man
- They did not try to stop their view of the resurrection because they already tried that and it did not work
- Peter defies the Sanhedrin (Vs 19, 20)
- They are willing to submit to any punishment they might receive for doing this, but they are not going to stop speaking
- They are released and ordered not to speak in Jesus name again
- Must have recognized something supernatural was attached to this name
- They recognized all the signs, but refused to change their hearts
- The Prayer Meeting (23 – 31)
- They realize that what is happening is prophecies by Psalm 2
- The place they are meeting is filled with the Holy Ghost a second time (Vs 31)
- They spoke the word of God with boldness