Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
Albert Barnes’s Notes says, “It is not said in what way they obtained this evidence, but the connection leads us to suppose it was by the miracle which they had performed, by their firm and bold declaration of the doctrines of Jesus, and perhaps by the irresistible conviction that none would be thus bold who had not been personally with him, and who had not the firmest conviction that he was the Messiah.”
Either:
- By the miracles
- By their doctrine or
- By their conviction
Two of the three are still at work today. The third of the three, while not supernatural in our day, as in the interruption of nature, may appear to be when God works so that lives are changed from the natural man to the spiritual.
If our doctrines were preached today with the firm conviction that Jesus is alive and at work through His Word, we would see much more of the miraculous in the way of salvation. But, as it is, the professions of faith we see so much of today are thoroughly of a natural sort.
Any salesman can teach the most unregenerate of men to do it.
Plenty of salesmen have done just that.
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