Acts 3
1 And Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, [which is] the ninth [hour];
One day Peter and John were going up to the Temple for the hour of prayer--the ninth hour--and, just then,
2 and a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they placed every day at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who were going into the temple;
some men were carrying there one who had been lame from birth, whom they were wont to place every day close to the Beautiful Gate (as it was called) of the Temple, for him to beg from the people as they went in.
3 who, seeing Peter and John about to enter into the temple, asked to receive alms.
Seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he asked them for alms.
4 And Peter, looking stedfastly upon him with John, said, Look on us.
Peter fixing his eyes on him, as John did also, said, "Look at us."
5 And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something from them.
So he looked and waited, expecting to receive something from them.
6 But Peter said, Silver and gold I have not; but what I have, this give I to thee: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean rise up and walk.
"I have no silver or gold," Peter said, "but what I have, I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene-- walk!"
7 And having taken hold of him [by] the right hand he raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones were made strong.
Then taking his hand Peter lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were strengthened.
8 And leaping up he stood and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
Leaping up, he stood upright and began to walk, and went into the Temple with them, walking, leaping, and praising God.
9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God;
All the people saw him walking and praising God;
10 and they recognised him, that it was he who sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
and recognizing him as the man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple asking for alms, they were filled with awe and amazement at what had happened to him.
11 And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
While he still clung to Peter and John, the people, awe-struck, ran up crowding round them in what was known as Solomon's Portico.
12 And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, Men of Israel, why are ye astonished at this? or why do ye gaze on us as if we had by our own power or piety made him to walk?
Peter, seeing this, spoke to the people. "Israelites," he said, "why do you wonder at this man? Or why gaze at us, as though by any power or piety of our own we had enabled him to walk?
13 The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he had judged that he should be let go.
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has conferred this honour on His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to let Him go.
14 But ye denied the holy and righteous one, and asked that a man [that was] a murderer should be granted to you;
Yes, you disowned the holy and righteous One, and asked as a favour the release of a murderer.
15 but the originator of life ye slew, whom God raised from among [the] dead, whereof we are witnesses.
The Prince of Life you put to death; but God has raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses as to that.
16 And, by faith in his name, his name has made this [man] strong whom ye behold and know; and the faith which is by him has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you all.
It is His name-- faith in that name being the condition--which has strengthened this man whom you behold and know; and the faith which He has given has made this man sound and strong again, as you can all see.
17 And now, brethren, I know that ye did it in ignorance, as also your rulers;
"And now, brethren, I know that it was in ignorance that you did it, as was the case with your rulers also.
18 but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.
But in this way God has fulfilled the declarations He made through all the Prophets, that His Christ would suffer.
19 Repent therefore and be converted, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from [the] presence of the Lord,
Repent, therefore, and reform your lives, so that the record of your sins may be cancelled, and that there may come seasons of revival from the Lord,
20 and he may send Jesus Christ, who was foreordained for you,
and that He may send the Christ appointed beforehand for you--even Jesus.
21 whom heaven indeed must receive till [the] times of [the] restoring of all things, of which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since time began. (aiōn g165)
Heaven must receive Him until those times of which God has spoken from the earliest ages through the lips of His holy Prophets--the times of the reconstitution of all things. (aiōn g165)
22 Moses indeed said, A prophet shall [the] Lord your God raise up to you out of your brethren like me: him shall ye hear in everything whatsoever he shall say to you.
Moses declared, "'The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet for you from among your brethren as He has raised me. In all that He says to you, you must listen to Him.
23 And it shall be that whatsoever soul shall not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.
And every one, without exception, who refuses to listen to that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the People.'
24 And indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession after [him], as many as have spoken, have announced also these days.
Yes, and all the Prophets, from Samuel onwards--all who have spoken--have also announced the coming of this present time.
25 Ye are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
"You are the heirs of the Prophets, and of the Covenant which God made with your forefathers when He said to Abraham, 'And through your posterity all the families of the world shall be blessed.'
26 To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent him, blessing you in turning each one [of you] from your wickedness.
It is to you first that God, after raising His Servant from the grave, has sent Him to bless you, by causing every one of you to turn from your wickedness."
