Sunday Devotions: The Power of a Name

Acts 4, John 11

In today’s reading from Acts, the religious leaders of Jerusalem interrogate Peter and John after the two apostles heal “a man lame from birth” in the Temple (3:2). Already “annoyed” that Peter and John continue to proclaim their teacher’s resurrection (4:2), other adjectives — incredulous, suspicious, wary, perhaps worried — lie behind the priests’ fir…