What does Acts 4:12 mean?

Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Acts 4:12, King James Version

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The verse in its chapter

Acts 4:10-14

  1. 10 Be 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.
  2. 11 This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
  3. 12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
  4. 13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
  5. 14 And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

Study note

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown (1871) (public domain).

Neither is there salvation in any other; for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved--How sublimely does the apostle, in these closing words, shut up these rulers of Israel to Jesus for salvation, and in what universal and emphatic terms does he hold up his Lord as the one Hope of men!

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About the book of Acts

Author
the same author as Luke; tradition credits Luke (Acts 1:1)
When
c. AD 62 to 80
Period
Igreja primitiva, c. 30 a 70 d.C. (in Portuguese)

Authorship: the book itself or Christian tradition. Approximate dates, as in Carson and Moo, An Introduction to the New Testament, and Longman and Dillard, An Introduction to the Old Testament.

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