No Other Name
“And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.””
BEFORE THOSE WHO DEMANDED SILENCE
Peter says this while under arrest, standing before the very council trying to silence Jesus' name — this boldness was forged under real pressure, not safety.
AN UNCOMFORTABLE EXCLUSIVITY
'No one else' and 'no other name' sound too narrow for our era, but Peter doesn't soften it — salvation has exactly one path, and it has a name.
GIVEN TO MEN, NOT EARNED
'Given among men' is the key phrase — this name wasn't discovered by human effort, it was handed over by God as a gift, not a conquest.
WE MUST BE SAVED
Peter includes himself — 'we must' — because he needed that name too. No one is exempt from the need this verse describes.
THE SAME NAME THAT HEALED THE LAME MAN
Peter is explaining a healing of a lame man that had just happened — the name that saves the soul is the same name that had already raised up that body.
ACT ON THIS NAME
Act: Tell someone today, in your own words, why the name of Jesus is different from any other path they may have already tried.