Acts 3:12–4:4

¹²But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?

¹³“^aThe God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ^bthe God of our fathers, has glorified His ^cServant Jesus, whom ^dyou delivered and denied in the presence of ^ePilate, when he had ^fdecided to release Him.

¹⁴“But you denied ^athe Holy and Righteous One and ^basked for a murderer to be granted to you,

¹⁵but put to death the ^aAuthor of life, whom ^bGod raised from the dead, a fact to which we are ^cwitnesses.

¹⁶“And on the basis of faith ^ain His name, it is ¹the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which is through Him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all.

¹⁷“And now, brothers, I know that you acted ^ain ignorance, just as your ^brulers did also.

¹⁸“But the things which ^aGod announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, ^bthat His ¹Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

¹⁹“Therefore ^arepent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that ^1btimes of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

²⁰and that He may send Jesus, the ¹Christ appointed for you,

^21awhom heaven must receive until the ¹period of ^brestoration of all things about which ^cGod spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.

²²“Moses said, ‘^aThe ¹Lord God will raise up for you a prophet ²like me from your brothers; to Him you shall listen to everything He says to you.

²³‘^aAnd it will be that every ^bsoul that does not heed that prophet ^cshall be utterly destroyed from among the people.’

²⁴“And likewise, ^aall the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and his successors onward, also proclaimed these days.

²⁵“It is you who are ^athe sons of the prophets and of the ^bcovenant which God ¹made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘^cAnd in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

²⁶“For you ^afirst, God ^braised up His ¹Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.”

CHAPTER 4

Peter and John Arrested

¹Now as they were speaking to the people, the priests and ^athe captain of the temple guard and ^bthe Sadducees ^ccame up to them,

²being greatly agitated because they were teaching the people and proclaiming ^1ain Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

³And they laid hands on them and ^aput them in jail until the next day, for it was already evening.

⁴But many of those who had heard the ¹message believed, and ^athe number of the men came to be about five thousand.