“Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.”
then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. — Peter directly names the source of power: Jesus Christ of Nazareth (the Messiah, the one you know from recent history). The accusation is blunt: 'whom you crucified' (stauros, crucified, hung on a stake), but the inversion is sharper: 'whom God raised from the dead' (egeiro nekros, raised from the dead). The healed man's presence (stands before you) is living proof of the resurrection's power.
Church Fathers on Acts 4:10
What ye hear in the ear that preach ye upon the housetops.— That in the name of Jesus Christ, he says, of Nazareth, Whom you crucified, Whom God raised from the dead, even by Him does this man stand here before you whole. Acts 4:10. Matthew 10:27 Think not, he says that we conceal the country, or the nature of the death. Whom you crucified, Whom God raised from the dead, even by Him does this man stand before you whole. Again the death, again the resurrection.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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