Acts 3
Peter and John healed a lame man at the temple gate, who was then able to walk and leap, and he entered the temple with them, praising God. The people were amazed and gathered around, and Peter explained that the healing was not by their own power, but by the power of Jesus Christ, whom the people had denied and put to death. Peter told the people that they acted in ignorance, but that God had fulfilled his plan through Jesus' suffering, and he called on them to repent and be converted. Peter also reminded the people of the prophecy of Moses and the promise to Abraham that all families of the earth would be blessed through Abraham's offspring.
Now Peter and John went up to the temple at the ninth hour of prayerAnd a certain man, who was lame from his mother’s womb, was being carried in. They would lay him every day at the gate of the temple, which is called the Beautiful, so that he might request alms from those entering into the templeAnd this man, when he had seen Peter and John beginning to enter the temple, was begging, so that he might receive almsThen Peter and John, gazing at him, said, "Look at us.And he looked intently at them, hoping that he might receive something from themBut Peter said: "Silver and gold is not mine. But what I have, I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk.And taking him by the right hand, he lifted him up. And immediately his legs and feet were strengthenedAnd leaping up, he stood and walked around. And he entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising GodAnd all the people saw him walking and praising GodAnd they recognized him, that he was the same one who was sitting for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. And they were filled with awe and amazement at what had happened to himThen, as he held on to Peter and John, all the people ran to them at the portico, which is called Solomon’s, in astonishmentBut Peter, seeing this, responded to the people: "Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this? Or why do you stare at us, as if it were by our own strength or power that we caused this man to walkThe God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus, whom you, indeed, handed over and denied before the face of Pilate, when he was giving judgment to release himThen you denied the Holy and Just One, and petitioned for a murderous man to be given to youTruly, it was the Author of Life whom you put to death, whom God raised from the dead, to whom we are witnessesAnd by faith in his name, this man, whom you have seen and known, has confirmed his name. And faith through him has given this man complete health in the sight of you allAnd now, brothers, I know that you did this through ignorance, just as your leaders also didBut in this way God has fulfilled the things that he announced beforehand through the mouth of all the Prophets: that his Christ would sufferTherefore, repent and be converted, so that your sins may be wiped awayAnd then, when the time of consolation will have arrived from the presence of the Lord, he will send the One who was foretold to you, Jesus Christwhom heaven certainly must take up, until the time of the restoration of all things, which God has spoken of by the mouth of his holy prophets, from ages pastIndeed, Moses said: ‘For the Lord your God shall raise up a Prophet for you from your brothers, one like me; the same shall you listen to according to everything whatsoever that he shall speak to youAnd this shall be: every soul who will not listen to that Prophet shall be exterminated from the people.And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and thereafter, have announced these daysYou are sons of the prophets and of the testament which God has appointed for our fathers, saying to Abraham: ‘And by your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.God raised up his Son and sent him first to you, to bless you, so that each one may turn himself away from his wickedness.
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