Today's Bible reading is the 4th chapter of the Book of Acts. You can read it here at Bible Gateway: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%204&version=NASB

As He said He would do, Jesus began building His church. Three thousand believed when Peter preached his first gospel message on the day of Pentecost. We saw that it was the Lord who was adding to their numbers "day by day", those who were being saved. Attempting to stop what God was doing, the religious leaders have Peter and John arrested. And although now being held in custody, they had already proclaimed the gospel message again and thousands more had believed. Peter and John are then questioned about the miracle that had been performed on the man who had been lame from his mother's womb. They were asked "by what power, or in what name, have you done this?" Peter responds by saying that it is in Jesus' name that the man stands before them well. He boldly tells them, that although they had crucified Him, God had raised Him from the dead. If the religious leaders could have denied the miracle performed on the man born lame, it appears that they would have done so. But they find themselves in a predicament. This forty year-old man was known by the people and many were glorifying God that he was now walking about in good health. To combat this undeniable miracle they would simply warn Peter and John "not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus". Peter had already told them plainly about the name of Jesus. He had told them there was salvation in no one else and that there was "no other name under heaven that has been given among men by which we must be saved." But Peter and John were Spirit compelled to speak and teach in the name of Jesus. They told the religious leaders that they could not stop speaking about what they had heard and seen. May God grant us this compulsion to speak and teach in the name of Jesus, the only name that has been given among men for them to be saved.