Acts 3
1 One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
One day, as Peter and John were going up into the Temple Courts for the three o’clock Prayers,
2 And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
a man, who had been lame from his birth, was being carried by. This man used to be set down every day at the gate of the Temple called “the Beautiful Gate,” to beg of those who went in.
3 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money.
Seeing Peter and John on the point of entering, he asked them to give him something.
4 Peter looked directly at him, as did John. “Look at us!” said Peter.
Peter fixed his eyes on him, and so did John, and then Peter said, ‘Look at us.’
5 So the man gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
The man was all attention, expecting to get something from them;
6 But Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
but Peter added, ‘I have no gold or silver, but I give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk.’
7 Taking him by the right hand, Peter helped him up, and at once the man’s feet and ankles were made strong.
Grasping the lame man by the right hand, Peter lifted him up. Instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong,
8 He sprang to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and leaping and praising God.
and, leaping up, he stood and began to walk about, and then went with them into the Temple Courts, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
9 When all the people saw him walking and praising God,
All the people saw him walking about and praising God;
10 they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
and, when they recognised him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were utterly astonished and amazed at what had happened to him.
11 While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and ran to them in the walkway called Solomon’s Colonnade.
While the man still clung to Peter and John, the people all quickly gathered round them in the Colonnade named after Solomon, in the greatest astonishment.
12 And when Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you surprised by this? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?
On seeing this, Peter said to the people, ‘People of Israel, why are you surprised at this? And why do you stare at us, as though we, by any power or piety of our own, had enabled this man to walk?
13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has done honour to his servant Jesus – him whom you gave up and disowned before Pilate, when he had decided to set him free.
14 You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
You, I say, disowned the holy and righteous one, and asked for the release of a murderer!
15 You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of the fact.
The guide to life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead – and of that we are ourselves witnesses.
16 By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know has been made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through Him that has given him this complete healing in your presence.
And it is by faith in the name of Jesus, that this man, whom you all see and know, has – by his name – been made strong. Yes, it is the faith inspired by Jesus that has made this complete cure of the man, before the eyes of you all.
17 And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.
And yet, my friends, I know that you acted as you did from ignorance, and your rulers also.
18 But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.
But it was in this way that God fulfilled all that he had long ago foretold, as to the sufferings of his Christ, by the lips of all the prophets.
19 Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
Therefore, repent and turn so that your sins may be wiped away; so that happier times may come from the Lord himself,
20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you.
and so that he may send you, in Jesus, your long-appointed Christ.
21 Heaven must take Him in until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God announced long ago through His holy prophets. (aiōn g165)
But heaven must be his home, until the days of the Universal Restoration, of which God has spoken by the lips of his holy prophets from the very first. (aiōn g165)
22 For Moses said, ‘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 tells you.
Moses himself said – “The Lord your God will raise up from among yourselves a prophet, as he raised me. To him you will listen whenever he speaks to you.
23 Everyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.’
And it will be that should anyone among the people not listen to that prophet, he will be utterly destroyed.”
24 Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.
Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel onwards, and all their successors who had a message to deliver, told of these days.
25 And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
You yourselves are the heirs of the prophets, and heirs, too, of the covenant which God made with your ancestors, when he said to Abraham – “In your descendants will all the nations of the earth be blessed.”
26 When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”
For you, first, God raised up his servant, and sent him to bless you, by turning each one of you from his wicked ways.’
