Acts 4, 1-12 There is no salvation through anyone else

Acts 4

(Acts 4, 1-12) There is no salvation through anyone else

[1] While they were still speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple guard, and the Sadducees confronted them, [2] disturbed that they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead. [3] They laid hands on them and put them in custody until the next day, since it was already evening. [4] But many of those who heard the word came to believe and (the) number of men grew to (about) five thousand. [5] On the next day, their leaders, elders, and scribes were assembled in Jerusalem, [6] with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and all who were of the high-priestly class. [7] They brought them into their presence and questioned them, "By what power or by what name have you done this?" [8] Then Peter, filled with the holy Spirit, answered them, "Leaders of the people and elders: [9] If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a cripple, namely, by what means he was saved, [10] then all of you and all the people of Israel should know that it was in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarean whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead; in his name this man stands before you healed. [11] He is 'the stone rejected by you, the builders, which has become the cornerstone.' [12] There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved."

(CCC 452) The name Jesus means "God saves". The child born of the Virgin Mary is called Jesus, "for he will save his people from their sins" (Mt 1:21): "there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved" (Acts 4:12). (CCC 453) The title "Christ" means "Anointed One" (Messiah). Jesus is the Christ, for "God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power" (Acts 10:38). He was the one "who is to come" (Lk 7:19), the object of "the hope of Israel" (Acts 28:20). (CCC 1507) The risen Lord renews this mission ("In my name… They will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover" Mk 16:17-18.) and confirms it through the signs that the Church performs by invoking his name (Cf. Acts 9:34; 14:3). These signs demonstrate in a special way that Jesus is truly "God who saves" (Cf. Mt 1:21; Acts 4:12). (CCC 1509) "Heal the sick!" (Mt 10:8). The Church has received this charge from the Lord and strives to carry it out by taking care of the sick as well as by accompanying them with her prayer of intercession. She believes in the life-giving presence of Christ, the physician of souls and bodies. This presence is particularly active through the sacraments, and in an altogether special way through the Eucharist, the bread that gives eternal life and that St. Paul suggests is connected with bodily health (Cf. Jn 6:54, 58; 1 Cor 11:30).