Note 4 at Acts 3:16: Some people have argued that the miracles in the book of Acts are not to be repeated by Christians today because these men who performed them were apostles with special power that God does not make available to us today. The apostle Peter himself refutes that in his answer to these people in verse 12. It was not any special power or holiness on his part that produced the healing. It was the name of Jesus and faith in that name that wrought the miracle.

We still have the name of Jesus today with it's authority and power, for without it we cannot be saved (Acts 4:12). And we still have faith, for without it we cannot be saved either (Eph. 2:8). Therefore, if the name of Jesus and faith in that name were responsible for producing this miracle, then the same miraculous results can be obtained today.

Note 5 at Acts 3:16: Peter makes it very clear that the man who was healed had faith. The recipient of a miracle always has to have some degree of faith, too (see note 2 at Lk. 7:13, p. 173).