Acts 3

¹Now Peter and John were going up to the temple for the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon. ²A man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried there; every day they would place him at the temple gate called "Beautiful" so he could ask for charitable gifts from those entering the temple courts. ³When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them for a gift. ⁴Peter, along with John, looked at him intently and said, "Look at us." ⁵The man fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.

⁶But Peter said, "Silver and gold I do not possess, but what I do have I give to you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!" ⁷Taking him by the right hand, Peter raised him up. Instantly the man’s feet and ankles were made strong. ⁸Leaping up, he stood and began to walk. He entered the temple courts with them—walking, leaping, and praising God. ⁹All the people saw him walking and praising God, ¹⁰and they recognized him as the one who used to sit and beg for charitable gifts at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with awe and utter amazement at what had happened to him.

¹¹While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them at the place called Solomon’s Portico, completely astonished. ¹²When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: "Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you gaze at us as if by our own power or devotion we made this man walk? ¹³The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—the God of our fathers—has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, even after he had decided to release him. ¹⁴You denied the Holy and Just One and demanded that a murderer be granted to you. ¹⁵You killed the Author of Life, whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses of this. ¹⁶And on the basis of faith in his name, his name has made this man strong—the man you see and know. The faith that comes through Jesus has given him this complete wholeness in the presence of you all.

¹⁷And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did. ¹⁸But in this way, God fulfilled what he had announced beforehand through the mouths of all the prophets: that his Christ would suffer. ¹⁹Therefore, change your hearts and turn back so that your sins may be wiped away, ²⁰so that seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you—Jesus. ²¹Heaven must receive him until the time of the restoration of all things, about which God spoke long ago through the mouths of his holy prophets.

²²Moses indeed 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 says to you. ²³And it shall be that every soul that does not listen to that Prophet shall be completely uprooted from the people.' ²⁴And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who followed him, also announced these days. ²⁵You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God established with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.' ²⁶When God raised up his Servant, he sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways."