Acts 3
3
Peter Heals a Beggar Who Can’t Walk
1One day Peter and John were going up to the temple. It was three o’clock in the afternoon. It was the time for prayer. 2A man unable to walk was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful. He had been that way since he was born. Every day someone put him near the gate. There he would beg from people going into the temple courtyards. 3He saw that Peter and John were about to enter. So he asked them for money. 4Peter looked straight at him, and so did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!” 5So the man watched them closely. He expected to get something from them.
6Peter said, “I don’t have any silver or gold. But I’ll give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk.” 7Then Peter took him by the right hand and helped him up. At once the man’s feet and ankles became strong. 8He jumped to his feet and began to walk. He went with Peter and John into the temple courtyards. He walked and jumped and praised God. 9All the people saw him walking and praising God. 10They recognized him as the same man who used to sit and beg at the temple gate called Beautiful. They were filled with wonder. They were amazed at what had happened to him.
Peter Speaks to the People at the Temple
11The man was holding on to Peter and John. All the people were amazed. They came running to them at the place called Solomon’s Porch. 12When Peter saw this, he said, “Fellow Israelites, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us? It’s not as if we’ve made this man walk by our own power or godliness. 13The God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has done this. God has brought glory to Jesus, who serves him. But you handed Jesus over to be killed. Pilate had decided to let him go. But you spoke against Jesus when he was in Pilate’s court. 14You spoke against the Holy and Blameless One. You asked for a murderer to be set free instead. 15You killed the one who gives life. But God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this. 16This man whom you see and know was made strong because of faith in Jesus’ name. Faith in Jesus has healed him completely. You can see it with your own eyes.
17“My fellow Israelites, I know you didn’t realize what you were doing. Neither did your leaders. 18But God had given a promise through all the prophets. And this is how he has made his promise come true. He said that his Messiah would suffer. 19So turn away from your sins. Turn to God. Then your sins will be wiped away. The time will come when the Lord will make everything new. 20He will send the Messiah. Jesus has been appointed as the Messiah for you. 21Heaven must receive him until the time when God makes everything new. He promised this long ago through his holy prophets. 22Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me. He will be one of your own people. You must listen to everything he tells you. 23Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people.’ (Deuteronomy 18:15,18,19)
24“Beginning with Samuel, all the prophets spoke about this. They said these days would come. 25What the prophets said was meant for you. The covenant God made with your people long ago is yours also. He said to Abraham, ‘All nations on earth will be blessed through your children.’ (Genesis 22:18; 26:4) 26God raised up Jesus, who serves him. God sent him first to you. He did it to bless you. He wanted to turn each of you from your evil ways.”
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Acts 3
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The Lame Man Healed at the Temple Gate
1#Ps 55:17; Ac 10:30Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer. 2#Lk 16:20; Jn 9:8A man lame from birth was being carried, whom people placed daily at the gate of the temple called Beautiful to ask alms from those who entered the temple. 3Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked for alms. 4Peter, gazing at him with John, said, “Look at us.” 5So he paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.
6#Ac 3:16; 4:10Then Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but I give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.” 7He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and ankles were strengthened. 8#Ac 14:10; Isa 35:6Jumping up, he stood and walked and entered the temple with them, walking and jumping and praising God. 9#Ac 4:16; 4:21All the people saw him walking and praising God. 10#Ac 3:2They knew that it was he who sat for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what happened to him.
Peter’s Speech at Solomon’s Porch
11#Jn 10:23; Ac 5:12As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the entrance that is called Solomon’s Porch, greatly amazed. 12When Peter saw it, he answered the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Or why do you stare at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk? 13#Mt 22:32; 27:2The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Son Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him. 14#Mk 1:24; Ac 4:27; 7:52You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15#Ac 2:24; 2:32and you killed the Creator of Life, whom God has raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. 16#Ac 3:6; Dt 32:4And His name, by faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. And faith which comes through Him has given him perfect health in your presence.
17#Lk 23:34; Ac 13:27“Now brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 18#Ac 26:22–23; Lk 24:26–27But what God foretold through all the prophets, that His Christ should suffer, He thus fulfilled. 19#Ac 2:38; Ps 51:9Therefore repent and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20and that He may send the One who previously was preached to you, Jesus Christ, 21#Lk 1:70; Ac 1:11whom the heavens must receive until the time of restoring what God spoke through all His holy prophets since the world began. 22#Ac 7:37; Isa 55:3–4For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall hear whatever He may say to you. 23#Dt 18:19And it shall be that every soul who will not hear that prophet shall be utterly eliminated from the people.’#Dt 18:15, 18–19.
24#1Sa 3:20; Ac 13:20“Indeed, all the prophets since Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold these days. 25#Ge 22:18; 12:3; Ac 2:39You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’#–26 Ps 2:1–2. 26#Ac 3:22; Mt 1:21God, having raised up His Son Jesus, sent Him to you first, to bless you in turning every one of you from your iniquities.”
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