Acts 3

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

²And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they were accustomed to place every day at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who were entering the temple courts.

³He, seeing Peter and John about to enter the temple courts, was asking to receive alms.

⁴And Peter, fixing his gaze on him together with John, said, "Look at us."

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

⁶But Peter said, "Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, [rise up and] walk."

⁷And taking hold of him by the right hand, he raised him up. And immediately his feet and his ankles were made strong,

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

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

¹⁰And they recognized him as the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple begging for alms; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

¹¹Now as the healed man was clinging to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's, utterly amazed.

¹²When Peter saw this, he responded to the people, "Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us as though by our own power or piety we have made this man walk?

¹³The God of Abraham and [the God of] Isaac and [the God of] Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence 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 you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

¹⁶And on the basis of faith in his name, his name has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith that is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

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

¹⁸But what God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets -- that his Christ would suffer -- he thus fulfilled.

¹⁹Repent therefore and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out,

²⁰and that he may send the Christ appointed for you -- Jesus,

²¹whom heaven must receive until the time of restoration of all things, about which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old.

²²Moses said, 'The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers; you shall listen to him in all that he speaks to you.

²³And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from the people.'

²⁴And indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those who follow in order -- as many as have spoken -- also announced these days.

²⁵You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed.'

²⁶To you first, God, having raised up his servant, sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your iniquities."