Tag: peter

  • Arrested AND Released

    So they arrested the apostles and put them in the public jail. But an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail during the night, brought them out.. Acts of the Apostles 5:18-19a – CSB ACTS of Arrests witnessed by the Apostles Politically motivated religious leaders of Jerusalem now begin to develop a…

    open jail door "Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life."
  • By what power? Political prowess by the powers that be

    “By what power, or in what name, have you done this?”  ACTS of the Apostles of Jesus Christ 4:7b Previously and Prior to that.. Their Previous Scene at the Temple Solomon’s Porch (portico) among the grand columns of HEROD’S temple, lasting project of a previous administration also pretentiously guarding what little power Rome would allow,…

    Peter preaching from Solomon's Porch
  • Preaching from Herod’s Porch

    You’ve never heard it called ‘HEROD’S PORCH,’ but certainly that must have been the inferred imagery when Herod the Great named it, ‘Solomon’s Porch,’ (porticum Salomonis, in the Latin of Herod’s Roman friends). Now while Kefa and Yochanan were being held by him, all the people ran together to them at the Portico which is…

    drawing of Herod's Temple