Acts 3:11-20

Peter's Second Sermon

11 While he was clinging to ¹Peter and John, all the people ran together to them at the so-called ²portico 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 "³The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, ⁴the God of our fathers, has glorified His ⁵servant Jesus, the one whom ⁶you delivered and disowned in the presence of ⁷Pilate, when he had ⁸decided to release Him.

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

15 but put to death the ¹¹Prince of life, the one whom ¹²God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are ¹³witnesses.

16 "And on the basis of faith ¹⁴in 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 ¹⁵in ignorance, just as your ¹⁶rulers did also.

18 "But the things which ¹⁷God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, ¹⁸that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

19 "Therefore ¹⁹repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that ²⁰times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

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

Cross References

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

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "colonnade"
• [b]. Or "Son"
• [c]. Or "Author"
• [d]. Lit "His name"
• [e]. Or "Anointed One;" i.e. Messiah
• [f]. Or "Anointed One;" i.e. Messiah