‘But Peter raised him up, saying, “Stand up. I myself also am a man.” '
But Peter would have none of it. He did not want the man to look to him. ‘Stand up,' he basically said. ‘I am only a man like you are. You must not give me honour to which I am not due.' It is always a tendency of man to hero-worship, and even go beyond that (and an equal tendency of man to accept it). But Scripture constantly warns against such attitudes (see Exodus 20:3-5; Deuteronomy 5:7-9; Luke 4:8; Revelation 19:10; Revelation 22:8-9).