Acts 3
1 Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, three o’clock in the afternoon.
2 A man who had been lame from birth was being carried there. Every day they would place him by the temple gate called Beautiful, so he could ask for alms from those entering the temple.
3 When he saw Peter and John about to enter the temple, he asked them for alms.
4 Peter, along with John, fixed his eyes on him and said, “Look at us.”
5 He paid close attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.
6 But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk.”
7 Taking him by the right hand, Peter raised him up. At once his feet and ankles became strong.
8 With a leap, he stood up and began to walk. He entered the temple with them, walking, leaping, and praising God.
9 All the people saw him walking and praising God,
10 and they recognized him as the one who used to sit and ask for alms at the temple’s Beautiful Gate. They were filled with amazement and wonder at what had happened to him.
11 While he held on to Peter and John, all the people, astonished, ran together to them at the portico called Solomon’s.
12 When Peter saw this, he said to the people, “Israelites, why are you amazed at this? Why are you staring at us, as if we had made this man walk by our own power or godliness?
13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, glorified his Servant Jesus. You handed him over and disowned him before Pilate, even though Pilate had decided to release him.
14 You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you.
15 You killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses to this.
16 By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, the man you see and know. And the faith that comes through him has given him this complete healing in front of you all.
17 And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.
18 But in this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through the mouth of all the prophets: that his Christ would suffer.
19 So repent and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
20 so that times of relief may come from the presence of the Lord, and he may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you.
21 He must remain in heaven until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God spoke about long ago through the mouth of his holy prophets.
22 Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you from among your brothers a prophet like me; you must listen to him in everything he says to you.
23 And every person who does not listen to that prophet will be cut off from the people.’
24 All the prophets, from Samuel onward, and all who spoke after him, also announced these days.
25 You are the children of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your ancestors, when he said to Abraham, ‘And through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
26 God raised up his Servant and sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each of you away from your wicked ways.”
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