Acts 3:1–4:12

Healing of a Lame Man

3Now Peter and John were going up together to the temple complex at the hour of prayer ^lat three in the afternoon. ^m2And a man who was lame from birth was carried there and placed every day at the temple gate called Beautiful, so he could beg from those entering the temple complex. ⁿ³When he saw Peter and John about to enter the temple complex, he asked for help. ⁴Peter, along with John, looked at him intently and said, “Look at us.” ⁵So he turned to them, ^oexpecting to get something from them. ⁶But Peter said, “I don’t have silver or gold, but what I have, I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk!” ^p7Then, taking him by the right hand he raised him up, and at once his feet and ankles became strong. ⁸So he jumped up, stood, and started to walk, and he entered the temple complex with them—walking, leaping, and praising God. ^q9All the people saw him walking and praising God, ¹⁰and they recognized that he was the one who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the temple complex. So they were filled with awe and astonishment at what had happened to him. ^r

Preaching in Solomon’s Colonnade

¹¹While he ^swas holding on to Peter and John, all the people, greatly amazed, ran toward them in what is called Solomon’s Colonnade. ^t12When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness? ¹³The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, ^uhas glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, ^vwhen he had decided to release Him. ¹⁴But you denied the Holy and Righteous One ^wand asked to have a murderer given to you. ^x15You killed the source ^yof life, whom God raised from the dead; we are witnesses of this. ^z16By faith in His name, His name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. So the faith that comes through Him has given him this perfect health in front of all of you.

¹⁷“And now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, just as your leaders also did. ^a18But what God predicted through the mouth of all the prophets—that His Messiah would suffer—He has fulfilled ^bin this way. ¹⁹Therefore repent ^cand turn back, so that your sins may be wiped out, ^dthat seasons of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, ^e20and that He may send Jesus, who has been appointed ^ffor you as the Messiah. ²¹Heaven must welcome ^gHim until the times of the restoration of all things, which God spoke about by the mouth of His holy prophets from the beginning. ^h22Moses said: ⁱ

The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He will say to you. ²³And everyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be completely cut off from the people. ^jk

²⁴“In addition, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those after him, have also announced these days. ²⁵You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, And all the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring. ^lm26God raised up His Servant ⁿand sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.” ^o

Peter and John Arrested

4Now as they were speaking to the people, the priests, the commander of the temple police, and the Sadducees confronted them, ^p2because they were provoked that they were teaching the people and proclaiming the resurrection from the dead, using Jesus as the example. ^qr3So they seized them and put them in custody until the next day, since it was already evening. ⁴But many of those who heard the message believed, and the number of the men came to about 5,000.

Peter and John Face the Jewish Leadership

⁵The next day, their rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem ⁶with Annas the high priest, Caiaphas, John and Alexander, and all the members of the high-priestly family. ^st7After they had Peter and John stand before them, they asked the question: “By what power or in what name have you done this?”

⁸Then Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and said to them, “Rulers of the people and elders: ^uv9If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a disabled man—by what means he was healed— ¹⁰let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene—whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead—by Him this man is standing here before you healthy. ^w11This Jesus is

the stone rejected by you builders,

which has become the cornerstone. ^xyz

¹²There is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to people, and we must be saved by it.” ^a