Acts 3

Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, three in the afternoon. A man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried there. Every day he was placed at the temple gate called Beautiful to ask for alms from those entering the temple. When he saw Peter and John about to enter the temple, he asked them for alms. Peter, together with John, looked intently at him and said, “Look at us.” So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. 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.” He took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately the man’s feet and ankles were strengthened. Leaping up, he stood and began to walk. He entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. All the people saw him walking and praising God. They recognized him as the one who sat begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. While he held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon’s, utterly amazed. When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness? The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied before Pilate, though he had decided to release him. But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be released to you. You killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses of this. Through faith in his name, his name has strengthened this man whom you see and know. The faith that comes through him has given this man complete health before you all. And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your rulers. But in this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through the mouth of all the prophets: that his Christ would suffer. Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and he may send Jesus, the Christ appointed beforehand for you. Heaven must receive him until the times of restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets long ago. 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 he tells you. And everyone who does not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ All the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who followed him onward, also proclaimed these days. You are the children of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘In your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’ 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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