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 again, 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."

Cross References

• 1. Acts 4:14
• 2. Acts 5:12; John 10:23
• 3. Matthew 22:32
• 4. Acts 5:30; Acts 22:14; [Acts 7:32]
• 5. Isaiah 55:5; [Isaiah 52:13]; See John 8:54
• 6. See Matthew 20:19
• 7. Acts 13:28; John 19:7, 12, 15
• 8. Luke 23:14, 16; John 19:12
• 9. [Acts 4:27, 30]; See Mark 1:24
• 10. Acts 7:52; Acts 22:14; 1 Peter 3:18; 1 John 2:1; 1 John 3:7; [James 5:6]
• 11. Luke 23:18, 19, 25
• 12. Acts 5:31
• 13. See Acts 2:24
• 14. [ver. 6]
• 15. [John 1:12]
• 16. [1 Peter 1:21]
• 17. Acts 13:27; [Acts 26:9; Luke 23:34; John 16:3; 1 Corinthians 2:8; 1 Timothy 1:13]
• 18. See Acts 2:23
• 19. Acts 17:3; Acts 26:22, 23; [Hebrews 2:10]; See Luke 24:26, 27
• 20. See Luke 9:20
• 21. Matthew 17:12; Luke 22:15; Luke 24:46; Hebrews 13:12
• 22. See Acts 2:38
• 23. See Luke 22:32
• 24. Psalms 51:1, 9; Isaiah 43:25; Isaiah 44:22; Colossians 2:14
• 25. Acts 22:14; Acts 26:16
• 26. [Acts 1:11; Luke 24:26]
• 27. [Matthew 17:11; Romans 8:21]
• 28. Luke 1:70
• 29. Acts 7:37, cited from Deut. 18:15, 18, 19
• 30. Matthew 17:5
• 31. Leviticus 23:29
• 32. Acts 13:20; 1 Samuel 3:20; Hebrews 11:32
• 33. See Acts 2:39
• 34. See Romans 9:4, 5
• 35. Cited from Genesis 22:18; See Genesis 12:3
• 36. Romans 1:16; Romans 2:9; Romans 15:8; [Mark 7:27]
• 37. ver. 22
• 38. ver. 25
• 39. Romans 11:26; [Ezekiel 3:19]; See Matthew 1:21

Footnotes

• [a]. Or child; also verse 26
• [b]. Greek him