Acts 3:12. And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, etc. The wondering gaze of the throng in the temple-court seemed to ask, ‘What mighty power is possessed by these men? What holy men must these be for God to have endowed them with these strange miraculous gifts?' It was in answer to that inquiring, anxious look, more than to any direct question, that Peter replied with his second sermon (see Lange), which he opens with a startling question, ‘Men of Israel, do you think we have done this great thing? Do you attribute this to our wondrous skill, or do you look upon this strange power as bestowed on us, as a reward for our piety and goodness?'

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