I believe we can be confident in understanding that what is meant to be conveyed by the phrase \\"perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men\\" was that Peter and Paul were not formally schooled in the \\"higher learning\\" of the day, but that their bold confident knowledge was founded in their instruction from and association with the Lord Jesus, (leaving aside the empowerment of the Holy Ghost). It wasn\'t per se a slur of their intellect, just the observation that they had no formal schooling, which made their able response all the more remarkable and, more importantly, attributable to the influence of the Lord Jesus.
Be the first person to like this.