Acts 3 (New American Standard)

Healing the Lame Beggar

1 Now ¹Peter and John were going up to the temple at the ^aninth hour, ²the hour of prayer. 2 And ³a man who had been lame from his mother's womb was being carried along, whom they ⁴used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, ⁵in order to beg ^balms of those who were entering the temple. 3 When he saw ⁶Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking to receive alms. 4 But Peter, along with John, ⁷fixed his gaze on him and said, "Look at us!" 5 And he began to give them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. 6 But Peter said, "I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: ⁸In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene -walk !" 7 And seizing him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened. 8 ^c9With a leap he stood upright and began to walk ; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. 9 And ¹⁰all the people saw him walking and praising God ; 10 and they were taking note of him as being the one who used to ¹¹sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

Peter's Second Sermon

11 While he was clinging to ¹²Peter and John, all the people ran together to them at the so-called ^d13portico of Solomon, full of amazement. 12 But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk ? 13 "¹⁴The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, ¹⁵the God of our fathers, has glorified His ^e16servant Jesus, the one whom ¹⁷you delivered and disowned in the presence of ¹⁸Pilate, when he had ¹⁹decided to release Him. 14 "But you disowned ²⁰the Holy and Righteous One and ²¹asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 but put to death the ^f22Prince of life, the one whom ²³God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are ²⁴witnesses. 16 "And on the basis of faith ²⁵in His name, it is ^gthe name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know ; and the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all. 17 "And now, brethren, I know that you acted ²⁶in ignorance, just as your ²⁷rulers did also. 18 "But the things which ²⁸God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, ²⁹that His ^hChrist would suffer, He has thus fulfilled. 19 "Therefore ³⁰repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that ³¹times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord ; 20 and that He may send Jesus, the ⁱChrist appointed for you, 21 ³²whom heaven must receive until the ^jperiod of ³³restoration of all things about which ³⁴God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time. 22 "Moses said, '³⁵THE LORD GOD WILL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET ^kLIKE ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN ; TO HIM YOU SHALL GIVE HEED to everything He says to you. 23 '³⁶And it will be that every ³⁷soul that does not heed that prophet ³⁸shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.' 24 "And likewise, ³⁹all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and his successors onward, also announced these days. 25 "It is you who are ⁴⁰the sons of the prophets and of the ⁴¹covenant which God ^lmade with your fathers, saying to Abraham, '⁴²AND IN YOUR SEED ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED.' 26 "For you ⁴³first, God ⁴⁴raised up His ^mServant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways."