Today, Teaching Pastor Scot Pollok takes us through the long episode of the healing of a lame man and the outcome of this miracle.  In the previous chapter we see the church enjoying “favor with all the people,” as they go to the temple day by day and see the signs and wonders at the hands of the apostles.  We see all of these specific things in this next episode except the young church no longer enjoys “favor with all the people.”  Religious leaders rise up against Peter and John and command that they no longer speak “in the name of Jesus.”  They cannot agree and pray to God for boldness.  God validates the entire scene by visiting them with another filling of the Holy Spirit and an answer to their prayer for boldness and courage.