Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov: The gracious power of the Prayer of Jesus is contained in the divine name itself of the God-man, our Lord Jesus Christ...

The gracious power of the Prayer of Jesus is contained in the divine name itself of the God-man, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Although there is abundant evidence in Holy Scripture proving the greatness of the name of God, yet the importance of this name was explained with special precision by the holy apostle Peter before the Jewish sanhedrin, when the council asked the Apostle by what power or by what name he had given healing to a man lame from birth. Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said: Rulers of the people and elders of Israel, if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a cripple, by what means this man has been healed, be it known to you all, 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. This is the stone which was rejected by you builders, but which has become the head of the corner. 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 4:8–12).