No other name
Peter and John had been put in prison for preaching the word in the temple. The next day Annas the high priest and Caiaphas and all the kindred of the high priest gathered themselves together. They set Peter and John in the midst of them and then asked, “By what power, or by what name, have ye done this?” (Acts 4:7b) Peter and John had healed a lame man, and those who put them on trial wanted to know who gave these men the power and authority to heal the lame man.
“8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole; 10Be 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. 12Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Verses 8-10 & 12)
Peter was filled with the Holy Ghost. He answered that the impotent man had been healed by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. It was by Him, by Jesus, that the man could stand before them whole. It was Jesus that had healed the man. Jesus is the Great Physician.
Jesus does not only heal bodies. He also heals souls. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Jesus is the only One who can save. There is salvation through the name of Jesus. There is none other name under heaven that can save. Not one. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6) No man comes to the Father but by Jesus Christ. In John 10:9, Jesus said, “I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved.” In John 12:32, Jesus, speaking of His coming death on the cross, said, “I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.”
Salvation cannot come through penance, pilgrimages, denying one’s self, paying offerings or indulgences, keeping the Ten Commandments, resisting evil, baptism, or any other works. Salvation comes only through the Lord Jesus Christ.
There is no other name.
There is no other way.