Acts 4:12 (BSB)
Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
Commentary on Acts 4:12
- John Calvin (Reformed), Calvin's Commentaries on Acts 4:12: 12. Neither is there salvation in any other. He passeth from the species [salvation] unto the genus, [or more particular,] and he goeth from the corporal benefit unto perfect health, [or general.] And assuredly Christ had showed this one token of his grace, to the end he might be known to be the only author of life.
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Acts 4:5-14: We have here the trial of Peter and John before the judges of the ecclesiastical court, for preaching a sermon concerning Jesus Christ, and working a miracle in his name. This is charged upon them as a crime, which was the best service they could do to God or men. I. Here is the court set. An extraordinary court, it should seem, was called on purpose upon this occasion.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Acts 4:12: Neither is there salvation in any other,.... Meaning not corporeal healing, but spiritual and eternal salvation; the Syriac version renders it, neither is there "redemption in any other": Christ is the only Saviour and Redeemer, who was promised and prophesied of as such; who has saved and redeemed his people from the law, sin, and Satan; nor is salvation to be sought and hoped for...
- Albert Barnes (Presbyterian), Barnes' New Testament Notes on Acts 4:12: Verse 12. Neither is there salvation. The word salvation properly denotes any preservation, or keeping anything in a safe state; a preserving it from harm. It signifies, also, deliverance from any evil of body or mind; from pain, sickness, danger, etc., . But it is in the New Testament applied particularly to the work which the Messiah came to do, "to seek and to save that which was lost," .