Acts 3:11-26

Listen to Acts 3:11-26

Peter Speaks in Solomon’s Portico

11 ¹While he clung to Peter and John, all the people, utterly astounded, ran together to them in ²the portico called Solomon’s.

12 And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?

13 ³The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, ⁴the God of our fathers, ⁵glorified his servant^[a] Jesus, whom ⁶you delivered over and ⁷denied in the presence of Pilate, ⁸when he had decided to release him.

14 But you denied ⁹the Holy and ¹⁰Righteous One, and ¹¹asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

15 and you killed ¹²the Author of life, ¹³whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.

16 And ¹⁴his name—by ¹⁵faith in his name—has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is ¹⁶through Jesus^[b] has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.

17 “And now, brothers, I know that ¹⁷you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

18 But what God ¹⁸foretold ¹⁹by the mouth of all the prophets, that ²⁰his Christ would ²¹suffer, he thus fulfilled.

19 ²²Repent therefore, and ²³turn back, that ²⁴your sins may be blotted out,

20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ ²⁵appointed for you, Jesus,

21 ²⁶whom heaven must receive until the time for ²⁷restoring all the things about which ²⁸God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

22 Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you ²⁹a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen ³⁰to him in whatever he tells you.

23 And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet ³¹shall be destroyed from the people. ’

24 And ³²all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days.

25 ³³You are the sons of the prophets and of ³⁴the covenant that God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ³⁵‘And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. ’

26 ³⁶God, ³⁷having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, ³⁸to bless you ³⁹by turning every one of you from your wickedness. ”

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