Acts 3:12-26

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 "¹The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, ²the God of our fathers, has glorified His ³servant Jesus, the one whom ⁴you delivered and disowned in the presence of ⁵Pilate, when he had ⁶decided to release Him.

14 "But you disowned ⁷the Holy and Righteous One and ⁸asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

15 but put to death the ⁹Prince of life, the one whom ¹⁰God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are ¹¹witnesses.

16 "And on the basis of faith ¹²in His name, it is the 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 ¹³in ignorance, just as your ¹⁴rulers did also.

18 "But the things which ¹⁵God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, ¹⁶that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

19 "Therefore ¹⁷repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that ¹⁸times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

20 and that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you,

21 ¹⁹whom heaven must receive until the period of ²⁰restoration of all things about which ²¹God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.

22 "Moses said, '²²THE LORD GOD WILL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET LIKE ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN; TO HIM YOU SHALL GIVE HEED to everything He says to you.

23 '²³And it will be that every ²⁴soul that does not heed that prophet ²⁵shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

24 "And likewise, ²⁶all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and his successors onward, also announced these days.

25 "It is you who are ²⁷the sons of the prophets and of the ²⁸covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, '²⁹AND IN YOUR SEED ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED.'

26 "For you ³⁰first, God ³¹raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways."

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 22:32
• 2. Exodus 3:13, 15; Acts 5:30; Acts 7:32; Acts 22:14
• 3. Acts 3:26; Acts 4:27, 30
• 4. Matthew 20:19; John 19:11; Acts 2:23
• 5. Matthew 27:2
• 6. Luke 23:4
• 7. Mark 1:24; Acts 4:27; Acts 7:52; 2 Corinthians 5:21
• 8. Matthew 27:20; Mark 15:11; Luke 23:18, 25
• 9. Acts 5:31; Hebrews 2:10; Hebrews 12:2
• 10. Acts 2:24
• 11. Luke 24:48
• 12. Acts 3:6
• 13. Luke 23:34; John 15:21; Acts 13:27; Acts 26:9; Ephesians 4:18
• 14. Luke 23:13
• 15. Acts 2:23
• 16. Luke 24:27; Acts 17:3; Acts 26:23
• 17. Acts 2:38; Acts 26:20
• 18. 2 Thessalonians 1:7; Hebrews 4:1f
• 19. Acts 1:11
• 20. Matthew 17:11; Romans 8:21
• 21. Luke 1:70
• 22. Deuteronomy 18:15, 18; Acts 7:37
• 23. Deuteronomy 18:19
• 24. Acts 2:41
• 25. Leviticus 23:29
• 26. Luke 24:27; Acts 17:3; Acts 26:23
• 27. Acts 2:39
• 28. Romans 9:4
• 29. Genesis 22:18
• 30. Matthew 15:24; John 4:22; Acts 13:46; Romans 1:16; Romans 2:9
• 31. Acts 2:24

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "Son"
• [b]. Or "Author"
• [c]. Lit "His name"
• [d]. Or "Anointed One;" i.e. Messiah
• [e]. Or "Anointed One;" i.e. Messiah
• [f]. Lit "periods, times"
• [g]. Or "as" He raised up "me"
• [h]. Lit "covenanted"
• [i]. Or "Son"