Acts 4:12

But Jesus is the only one that can save people. God didn’t send anyone else to save us. Jesus is the only one in the world that has power to save people.”

Plain English Version

In The King James Version

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

In Context

11You know, a long time ago, one of God’s men told a picture story about you boss mob, and about Jesus too. They said that some work-men built a house out of big stones, but those work-men thought one of those stones was rubbish, so they chucked it away. But they were wrong. That stone was properly good, and now God made it the most important stone of all. You are like those work-men, and Jesus is like that stone. You did not want him.

13The leaders knew that Peter and John were ordinary men that never went to Jewish school to learn about God’s book, but Peter and John were not frightened to talk back to them. So those leaders were shocked. Then they remembered that Peter and John were Jesus’s friends and often listened to him.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:19The water got so deep that it covered all the big mountains everywhere.

Mark 16:15After that, Jesus said to his followers, “You have to go out to everywhere in the world and tell everybody the good news about me.

John 3:36Anyone that believes in God’s son will live with him for ever. But anyone that does not do what God’s son says, will not live with God, and God will be angry with that person for ever.”

Acts 2:5There were some Jewish people from a lot of different countries that were staying in Jerusalem at that time. Those people really respected God.

Matthew Henry on Acts 4:6-15

Peter and John Examined before the Sanhedrim. 5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers, and elders, and scribes, 6 And Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the high priest, were gathered together at Jerusalem. 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they asked, By what power, or by what name, have ye done this? 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9 If we this day be… Read the whole commentary →

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