(མཛད་པ། 3:17-26)

17 “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 18 But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled. 19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, 20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, 21 whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago. (Acts 3:17-21)

Peter is saying, ‘Yeshu, who is now in heaven, will come to those who repent, and set you free.’

 

22 Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. 23 And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’ 24 And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days. 25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’ 26 God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.” (Acts 3:22-26)

 

‘Yeshu is the great revealer of the dharma of whom Moses spoke. It was God’s plan from the earliest times. First of all you Jews, and then all nations, who repent and listen to him, will be blessed by him. But there is no hope for those who refuse to listen.’

(མཛད་པ། 4:1-4)

And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, 2 greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening. 4 But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand. (Acts 4:1-4)

 

The leaders of the Jewish sangha thought Yeshu to be dead, and his frightened disciples to be in hiding. Instead they are found teaching a crowd openly in the temple itself that Yeshu was alive!

Read on to find how angry they were.

(མཛད་པ། 4:5-12)

 

5 On the next day their rulers and elders and scribes gathered together in Jerusalem, 6 with Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly family. 7 And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, “By what power or by what name did you do this?” 8 Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders, 9 if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed, 10 let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. 11 This Jesus[a] is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.12 And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” (Acts 4:5-12)

 

See how God’s Spirit gives to Peter the boldness and ability to answer when examined before all the most powerful lamas in Israel.

‘You killed him. But God raised that Nazarene Yeshu. Admit it!

‘You killed God’s Christ. But he and none other has done this good deed.

‘You rejected him, just as scripture said would happen. But God – the Great Architect as it were – had chosen Yeshu to be the foundation stone of the temple of salvation; for he alone has the power to heal and save.’