Acts 3

¹Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

²And a certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they placed daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate so he could ask for charitable gifts from those who went into the temple.

³When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive a gift.

⁴And Peter, along with John, looked directly at him and said, “Look at us.”

⁵And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.

⁶But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk.”

⁷And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.

⁸And leaping up, he stood and began to walk. And he entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God.

⁹And all the people saw him walking and praising God,

¹⁰and they recognized him, that it was he who sat asking for charitable gifts at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

¹¹And as he held Peter and John, all the people, being greatly amazed, ran together to them in Solomon’s portico.

¹²And when Peter saw this, he answered the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed by this? Why do you stare at us, as if we had made him walk by our own power or godliness?

¹³The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied before the face of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.

¹⁴But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

¹⁵and instead you killed the one who leads the way into life, whom God raised from among the dead, of which we are witnesses.

¹⁶And by trusting in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the trust that is through his name has given him this perfect health, as you all can see.

¹⁷And now, brothers, I know that in ignorance you did it, as did also your rulers.

¹⁸But the things that God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets—that his Christ would suffer—he has fulfilled in this way.

¹⁹Repent therefore, and return to God so that your sins are wiped clean, so that seasons of refreshing come from the presence of the Lord,

²⁰and so that he sends the Christ who has been appointed for you, that is, Jesus.

²¹Heaven must receive him until the time of the restoration of all things—God has spoken about this by the mouth of his holy prophets from ancient times.

²²Indeed, Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to him in everything that he says to you.

²³And it will be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet’ will be utterly destroyed from among the People.

²⁴Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.

²⁵You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘and through your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

²⁶To you first, God, having raised up his Servant, sent him to bless you by turning every one of you away from your wicked ways.”