If I told you I grant you permission to enter into the gold vaults at Fort Knox, your authority would be worthless - I do not have the requisite power or ability to grant you such permission. To act in one's name is to act with one's authorization. Peter and John did not innately possess this ability or right to teach and perform miracles. Jesus is the one in whom authority resides . The single efficacious name is Jesus.
Man defines the totality of authority as being legislative, judicial, and executive.
The means of exercising or articulating authority to man . How we establish authority in religious matters . As we have seen, God's word is the standard or expression of Jesus' authority. All look to some source for their authority. It may be the Pope, preacher, their creeds, parents, majority rule, or their feelings.