Preaching And Reading The Old Testament Lessons
This text for the Sunday after Easter really shakes us up, doesn't it? Here we have a picture of the beginning of the life of the Christian church in Jerusalem, with numbers being added to it every day as a result of the bold preaching of the apostles Peter and John. Those two had been told by the Jewish elders and the Sadducees in the city to stop their preaching of the resurrection. But they had replied, "We cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard" (v. 20).