Acts 3
3
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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Acts 3
3
A Lame Man is Healed
1One day Peter and John went to the Temple at three o'clock in the afternoon, the hour for prayer. 2There at the Beautiful Gate, as it was called, was a man who had been lame all his life. Every day he was carried to the gate to beg for money from the people who were going into the Temple. 3When he saw Peter and John going in, he begged them to give him something. 4They looked straight at him, and Peter said, “Look at us!” 5So he looked at them, expecting to get something from them. 6But Peter said to him, “I have no money at all, but I give you what I have: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth I order you to get up and walk!” 7Then he took him by his right hand and helped him up. At once the man's feet and ankles became strong; 8he jumped up, stood on his feet, and started walking around. Then he went into the Temple with them, walking and jumping and praising God. 9The people there saw him walking and praising God, 10and when they recognized him as the beggar who had sat at the Beautiful Gate, they were all surprised and amazed at what had happened to him.
Peter's Message in the Temple
11As the man held on to Peter and John in Solomon's Porch, as it was called, the people were amazed and ran to them. 12When Peter saw the people, he said to them, “Fellow-Israelites, why are you surprised at this, and why do you stare at us? Do you think that it was by means of our own power or godliness that we made this man walk? 13#Ex 3.15The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has given divine glory to his Servant Jesus. But you handed him over to the authorities, and you rejected him in Pilate's presence, even after Pilate had decided to set him free. 14#Mt 27.15–23; Mk 15.6–14; Lk 23.13–23; Jn 19.12–15He was holy and good, but you rejected him, and instead you asked Pilate to do you the favour of turning loose a murderer. 15You killed the one who leads to life, but God raised him from death — and we are witnesses to this. 16It was the power of his name that gave strength to this lame man. What you see and know was done by faith in his name; it was faith in Jesus that has made him well, as you can all see.
17“And now, my fellow-Israelites, I know that what you and your leaders did to Jesus was due to your ignorance. 18God announced long ago through all the prophets that his Messiah had to suffer; and he made it come true in this way. 19Repent, then, and turn to God, so that he will forgive your sins. If you do, 20times of spiritual strength will come from the Lord, and he will send Jesus, who is the Messiah he has already chosen for you. 21He must remain in heaven until the time comes for all things to be made new, as God announced through his holy prophets who lived long ago. 22#Deut 18.15, 18 (LXX)For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will send you a prophet, just as he sent me,#3.22 just as he sent me; or like me. and he will be one of your own people. You are to obey everything that he tells you to do. 23#Deut 18.19Anyone who does not obey that prophet shall be separated from God's people and destroyed.’ 24And all the prophets who had a message, including Samuel and those who came after him, also announced what has been happening these days. 25#Gen 22.18The promises of God through his prophets are for you, and you share in the covenant which God made with your ancestors. As he said to Abraham, ‘Through your descendants I will bless all the people on earth.’ 26And so God chose his Servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by making every one of you turn away from your wicked ways.”
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Good News Bible with Deuterocanonicals/Apocrypha. Scripture taken from the Good News Bible (r) (Today's English Version Second Edition, UK/British Edition). Copyright © 1992 British & Foreign Bible Society. Used by permission.