Acts 3
1 One day, as Peter and John were going up into the Temple Courts for the three o’clock Prayers,
Now at the same time Peter and John were going up into the temple, at the hour of prayer, the ninth.
2 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.
And a certain man, being lame from his mother's belly, was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask charity from those who entered into the temple,
3 Seeing Peter and John on the point of entering, he asked them to give him something.
who, having seen Peter and John intending to go into the temple, asked charity.
4 Peter fixed his eyes on him, and so did John, and then Peter said, ‘Look at us.’
And Peter, having gazed intently at him, with John, said, Look at us.
5 The man was all attention, expecting to get something from them;
And he gave attention to them expecting to receive something from them.
6 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.’
But Peter said, No silver and gold exists to me, but what I have, this I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk.
7 Grasping the lame man by the right hand, Peter lifted him up. Instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong,
And after taking him by the right hand, he lifted him up. And immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened.
8 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.
And leaping up, he stood and walked. And he entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
9 All the people saw him walking about and praising God;
And all the people saw him walking and praising God,
10 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.
and they recognized him, that this was the man who sat for charity at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. And they were filled of astonishment and amazement at that which happened to him.
11 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.
And as the lame man who was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon's, amazed.
12 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?
And Peter having seen, he responded to the people, Men, Israelites, why do ye marvel at this man? Or why do ye stare at us, as by our own power or piety we have made him to walk?
13 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.
The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Boy Jesus, whom ye actually delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate who preferred to release that man.
14 You, I say, disowned the holy and righteous one, and asked for the release of a murderer!
But ye denied the Holy and Righteous, and asked for a man, a murderer to be granted to you.
15 The guide to life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead – and of that we are ourselves witnesses.
And ye killed the Pathfinder of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
16 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.
And by faith in his name, this man whom ye see and know, his name has made strong. And faith through him has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you all.
17 And yet, my friends, I know that you acted as you did from ignorance, and your rulers also.
And now, brothers, I know that ye did it from ignorance, as also your rulers.
18 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.
But this way God fulfilled what things were foretold, through the mouth of all his prophets, the Christ was to endure.
19 Therefore, repent and turn so that your sins may be wiped away; so that happier times may come from the Lord himself,
Repent ye therefore, and be converted in order to wipe away your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.
20 and so that he may send you, in Jesus, your long-appointed Christ.
And he may send Christ Jesus who has been pre-ordained for you,
21 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)
whom heaven must indeed receive until the times of restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of all his holy prophets from the age. (aiōn g165)
22 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.
For Moses indeed said to the fathers, The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you, from your brothers, like me. Ye shall hear him in all things, as many as he might speak to you.
23 And it will be that should anyone among the people not listen to that prophet, he will be utterly destroyed.”
And every soul, whichever it will be, if it will not hear that prophet will be utterly destroyed from the people.
24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel onwards, and all their successors who had a message to deliver, told of these days.
And also all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession, as many as spoke, also proclaimed these days.
25 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.”
Ye are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant that God made for our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed all the patriarchies of the earth will be blessed.
26 For you, first, God raised up his servant, and sent him to bless you, by turning each one of you from his wicked ways.’
To you first, having raised up his Boy Jesus, God sent him blessing you, in turning away each man from your evils.
