Acts 3

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