Acts 3:9-19

9 All the people saw him walking and praising God;

10 and recognizing him as the man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple asking for alms, they were filled with awe and amazement at what had happened to him.

11 While he still clung to Peter and John, the people, awe-struck, ran up crowding round them in what was known as Solomon's Portico.

12 Peter, seeing this, spoke to the people. "Israelites," he said, "why do you wonder at this man? Or why gaze at us, as though by any power or piety of our own we had enabled him to walk?

13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has conferred this honour on His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to let Him go.

14 Yes, you disowned the holy and righteous One, and asked as a favour the release of a murderer.

15 The Prince of Life you put to death; but God has raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses as to that.

16 It is His name-- faith in that name being the condition--which has strengthened this man whom you behold and know; and the faith which He has given has made this man sound and strong again, as you can all see.

17 "And now, brethren, I know that it was in ignorance that you did it, as was the case with your rulers also.

18 But in this way God has fulfilled the declarations He made through all the Prophets, that His Christ would suffer.

19 Repent, therefore, and reform your lives, so that the record of your sins may be cancelled, and that there may come seasons of revival from the Lord,