Acts 3:11–26

¹¹They were excited, and everyone ran to see them at the place called Solomon’s Porch. The man wouldn’t let go of Peter and John. 

¹²When Peter saw this, he said to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed about this man? Why are you staring at us as though we have made him walk by our own power or godly life? ¹³The God of our ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed Jesus over to Pilate. You rejected him in Pilate’s presence, even though Pilate had decided to let him go free. ¹⁴You rejected the man who was holy and innocent. You asked to have a murderer given to you, ¹⁵and you killed the source of life. But God brought him back to life, and we are witnesses to that. ¹⁶We believe in the one named Jesus. Through his power alone this man, whom you know, was healed, as all of you saw. 

¹⁷“And now, brothers, I know that like your rulers you didn’t know what you were doing. ¹⁸But in this way God made the sufferings of his Messiah come true. God had predicted these sufferings through all the prophets. ¹⁹So change the way you think and act, and turn ⸤to God⸥ to have your sins removed. ²⁰Then times will come when the Lord will refresh you. He will send you Jesus, whom he has appointed to be the Christ. ²¹Heaven must receive Jesus until the time when everything will be restored as God promised through his holy prophets long ago. 

²²“Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will send you a prophet, an Israelite like me. Listen to everything he tells you. ²³Those who won’t listen to that prophet will be excluded from the people.’ ²⁴Samuel and all the prophets who followed him spoke about these days. ²⁵You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the promise^athat God made to our ancestors when he said to Abraham, ‘Through your descendant all people on earth will be blessed.’ ²⁶God has brought his servant back to life and has sent him to you first. God did this to bless you by turning every one of you from your evil ways.”