Acts 3
1 Now Peter and John were going up together into the temple at the hour (the ninth) of prayer.
One day Peter and John were going up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
2 And a certain man, who had actually been lame from his mother's womb, was being carried (they would lay him daily at the temple gate, the one called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple),
And a man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those who were entering the temple courts.
3 who, upon seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, began asking for alms.
When he saw Peter and John about to enter the temple courts, he began asking for alms.
4 So Peter, with John, fastening his gaze on him said, “Look at us.”
But Peter, along with John, looked at him intently and said, “Look at us.”
5 So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
So the man gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
6 But Peter said: “I do not have silver and gold, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ the Natsorean, get up and walk!”
But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I do have I give to yoʋ. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.”
7 And grasping him by his right hand he lifted him up; immediately his feet and ankles were strengthened.
Then Peter took hold of him by the right hand and raised him up, and at once his feet and ankles were strengthened.
8 So jumping up he stood, and began to walk! And he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
Leaping up, he stood and began walking. Then he entered the temple courts with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
9 Well all the people saw him walking and praising God;
When all the people saw him walking and praising God,
10 and they recognized him—that he was the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, with a view to alms—and they were filled with wonder and amazement because of what had happened to him.
they recognized him as the man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple asking for alms. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
11 Now as the lame man who had been healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico, the one called ‘Solomon's’, really wondering.
As the lame man who had been healed clung to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them at the portico called Solomon's, utterly astonished.
12 So upon observing this Peter responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why are you marveling at this, or why are you staring at us as if we have made him walk by our own power or godliness?
When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why are you staring at us as though by our own power or godliness we have made this man walk?
13 The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up; and you repudiated Him to Pilate's face, when he was intending to release Him.
The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, even though Pilate had decided to release him.
14 Yes you repudiated the holy and righteous One, and you asked that a murderer be granted to you,
Yes, you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you.
15 while you killed the Originator of the Life, whom God raised from among the dead, to which we are witnesses.
You put to death the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
16 Well His name, based on faith in His name, made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith that is through Him has given him this wholeness in the presence of you all.
By faith in his name, his name has strengthened this man whom you see and know, and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all.
17 “So now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, as also your rulers.
“Now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your rulers also.
18 But the things that God foretold through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Messiah would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.
But in this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through the mouths of all his prophets, that the Christ would suffer.
19 Repent therefore, and turn around, so that your sins may be erased, in order that times of refreshing may come from the Lord's face
Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped away, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
20 and that He may send Jesus, who had been ordained to be your Messiah,
and that he may send Jesus, the Christ who has been appointed for you.
21 whom Heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, of which times God spoke long ago by the mouth of all His holy prophets. (aiōn g165)
Heaven must receive him until the time comes for the restoration of all things, which God declared by the mouth of all his holy prophets long ago. (aiōn g165)
22 “For example, Moses said to the fathers: ‘The Lord our God will raise up for you a Prophet, like me, from among your brothers. You must listen to Him, in all that He may say to you.
For Moses said to our fathers, ‘The Lord our God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to everything he tells you.
23 It will be that every person who will not listen to that Prophet will be extirpated from among the people.’
Every soul who does not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
24 “Yes and all the prophets, from Samuel on down, as many as have spoken, have also foretold these days.
Indeed, all the prophets who have spoken, beginning with Samuel and continuing with those who came afterward, also proclaimed these days.
25 You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘Yes, in your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with our fathers when he said to Abraham, ‘In yoʋr offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
26 God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to you first, to bless you by turning each of you away from your iniquities.”
God raised up his servant Jesus and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”
