What Gave them such Boldness?

What gave them boldness?

it wasn’t their government. or the religious authorities.

it wasn’t their education or their training backgrounds. v.13

The Holy Spirit

The Remembrance of the Resurrection v. 10,19

Gary Habermas

Critics have long accepted the fact that the earliest disciples at least believed that Jesus had been raised from the dead (see below). But this belief would have been defied by the sight of a Jesus who had not died on the cross. If he had shown himself to his followers a few days after the crucifixion, as the early sources indicate, he would have been in horrible physical condition: bruised, beaten, bloody, pale, limping, and in obvious need of medical assistance. But such a condition would have disallowed the view that he had been raised from the dead in a resurrected body. He would have been alive (barely) but not raised! Further, there would be no impetus for the prominent conviction that believers would someday be raised just like Jesus. Who would want a body like this sickly one! In short, the swoon theory actually contradicts the disciples’ belief that Jesus had truly been raised.

The Recognition of the Resurrected One v 10

The Urgency of the message

The Priority of Pleasing God v. 19

The Prayer to a Sovereign God. v.27-30.