But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!”
Peter truthfully admits his poverty, yet what he has, the gift of healing in Christ's name, he gives freely, for God ordains that whatever He entrusts to us serves to exercise love toward our neighbors. The Pope's mockery of this passage, sitting in his stone cell casting crosses while his treasury overflows, reveals Satan's reign where men openly scorn the sacred Word.
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Luke records only those miracles the Holy Ghost deemed fit to serve the purpose of this sacred history, not every wonder the apostles performed. Peter and John were the principal men, and Luke was particular with them because they presided where he belonged; later he does the same with Paul, giving us specimens of what all the apostles did. Friendship bound these two closer than kinship ever could.
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Commenting on Acts 3:1-11
Peter carried no money into the temple, but he had what mattered far more: the gift of healing. He exercised it not in his own name or power, but solely in the name and by the power of Jesus Christ, the very difference that marks Christ apart from all other prophets and teachers, who never dared claim such authority.
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