Jesus of Nazareth. — We hardly estimate, as we read them, the boldness implied in the utterance of that Name. Barely seven weeks had passed since He who bore it had died the death of a slave and of a robber. The speaker himself had denied all knowledge of Him of whom he now spoke.
A man approved of God. — The verb is used in its older English sense, as proved, or pointed out, not as we now use the word, as meeting with the approval of God.
Miracles and wonders and signs. — Better, mighty works... The words are three synonyms, expressing different aspects of the same facts, rather than a classification of phenomena. The leading thought, in the first word, is the power displayed in the act; in the second, the marvel of it as a portent: in the third, its character as a token or note of something beyond itself.