Acts 3:17–26

¹⁷And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also. ¹⁸But the things which God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christⁱ would suffer, he has fulfilled in this way. ¹⁹Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out, ²⁰so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and he may send the Christ^j appointed for you—Jesus, ²¹whom heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all things, about which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from earliest times. ²²Moses said, ‘The Lord God^k will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You will listen to him in everything that he says to you.^{l 23}And it will be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet will be destroyed utterly from the people.’^{m 24}And indeed, all the prophets from Samuel and all those who followed him^* have spoken about and proclaimed these days. ²⁵You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God ordained with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’^{n 26}God, after he^* had raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning each of you back from your wickedness!”