Acts 3
3
The Healing of a Lame Beggar
1 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they put every day at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, so as to ask for alms from those who were going into the temple,* 3 who, when he saw Peter and John about to enter the temple, began to ask for alms. 4 But Peter gazed intently at him, together with John, and said, “Look at us!” 5 And he began to pay attention to them, expecting to receive something from them. 6 But Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not possess, but what I have, this I give to you—in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up* and walk!” 7 And seizing him by the right hand, he raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles received strength. 8 And leaping up, he stood and was walking around; and he entered into the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. 9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God, 10 and they recognised him, that he was the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, asking* for alms. And they were filled with astonishment and amazement at what had happened to him.
The Second Apostolic Preaching
11 And while he clung to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon’s, full of astonishment. 12 And when he saw it, Peter answered the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this? Or why are you gazing intently at us, as if by our own power or godliness we have made him walk? 13 The 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 over and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him. 14 But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One, and requested a man—a murderer—be granted to you, 15 and you killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses. 16 And on the ground of faith in His name—His name itself—has strengthened this man, whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Him has given to him this perfect soundness before all of you.
17 “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers also* did. 18 But what God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. 19 Therefore, repent and turn back, for the blotting out of your sins, 20 so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send the One who has been appointed for you—Christ Jesus, 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all things, which God spoke through the mouth of His holy prophets long ago.* 22 Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to Him in all things that He says to you. 23 And it will be that every soul who does not give heed to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from the people.’* 24 And indeed, all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, also have proclaimed these days. 25 You 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 families* of the earth will be blessed.’* 26 To you first, having raised up His Servant, God sent Him to bless you by turning each one of you from your wickedness.”
Notes
2 Or outer courts of the temple , so also vv. 3,8
6 Some ancient manuscripts omit the verb phrase rise up and within the larger coordinate predicate rise up and walk
10 The participle asking is supplied to the text based on context
13 Twice in this verse, some ancient manuscripts do not include the definite noun phrase the God
18 The Greek text uses a semantic ellipsis, reading just as also your rulers, with the word did implied by the context
21 Greek from [the] age
22-23 Quoted from Deut. 18:15-19
25 Or nations
25 Quoted from Gen. 22:18
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