NOTES for Act 2:36-37
Christian historians and theologians have repeatedly expressed the opinion that the entire history of the fallen humanity is, in fact, nothing else than the repetition of the fall in different forms. And, maybe if to talk about the Jewish history, as about the history of the people of God, the torture of the so long expected Messiah, Who the majority of the people did not bother to notice, is the best testimony of it.
In fact, Jesus was condemned to death not for the messianic lie and even not for the religious crimes (such charges which were moved forward in Sanhedrin, were just a cover), but only because He prevented the authorities (both secular and religious) from playing their political games. And here, it seems, manifests itself the characteristic of the fallen human nature, can just be, in particular what formerly, at the dawn of the history of the humanity, became the reason of its fall: the distortion of the spiritual perspective, because of which the most important seems a trifle, not worth attention, and the least important engendered by the very man illusions and mirages - the most important. All the spiritual horror of the situation lies maybe exactly in the fact that Christ was crucified among others, thinking not at all of Him, not only as the Messiah, but even simply as man, not thinking at least in this proportion for which generally requires to think every death sentence endurable to every person without exception.
Through the Messiah, Who according to the words was so expected, just crossed, as through the barrier hindering the authorities. And indeed, the readiness to step over people, who disturb, and to go to the purpose over corpses, can be considered as the demonstration most character to the fallen human nature. But then came the day of the Pentecost, penetrated into the world the breath of the Kingdom, rang the sermon of the apostles. And those who listened to them, found themselves in the Kingdom, where the spiritual perspective is not deformed at all, as is deformed its fallen world, where all things and all situations are such, as God sees them.
And the answer to the sermon became a quite regular question in such situation: what shall we do now, when the most terrible has already happened, and we all, in various degree had taken part in it? And - such is the life of the Kingdom! - this very question became the beginning of the way of salvation. Indeed, there is nothing irreparable for God - the resurrection of Christ is a testimony of that. Only one thing is irreparable: the unwillingness of people to accept what is obvious. And, above all, one’s own sin.