Acts 3
1 One day, as Peter and John were going up into the Temple Courts for the three o’clock Prayers,
One day Peter and John were going up to the Temple for the hour of prayer--the ninth hour--and, just then,
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.
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 Seeing Peter and John on the point of entering, he asked them to give him something.
Seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he asked them for alms.
4 Peter fixed his eyes on him, and so did John, and then Peter said, “Look at us.”
Peter fixing his eyes on him, as John did also, said, "Look at us."
5 The man was all attention, expecting to get something from them;
So he looked and waited, 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.”
"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 Grasping the lame man by the right hand, Peter lifted him up. Instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong,
Then taking his hand Peter lifted him up, and immediately his feet and 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.
Leaping up, he stood upright and began to walk, and went into the Temple with them, walking, leaping, and praising God.
9 All the people saw him walking about and praising God;
All the people saw him walking and praising God;
10 and, when they recognized 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 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 While the man still clung to Peter and John, the people all quickly gathered around them in the Colonnade named after Solomon, in the greatest astonishment.
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 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?
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, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has done honor 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, 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 You, I say, disowned the holy and righteous one, and asked for the release of a murderer!
Yes, you disowned the holy and righteous One, and asked as a favour the release of a murderer.
15 The guide to life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead – and of that we are ourselves 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 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.
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 yet, my friends, I know that you acted as you did from ignorance, and your rulers also.
"And now, brethren, I know that it was in ignorance that you did it, as was the case with your rulers also.
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 in this way God has fulfilled the declarations He made through all the Prophets, that His Christ would suffer.
19 Therefore, repent and turn so that your sins may be wiped away; so that happier times may come from the Lord himself,
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 so that he may send you, in Jesus, your long-appointed Christ.
and that He may send the Christ appointed beforehand for you--even Jesus.
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)
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 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.
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 will be that should anyone among the people not listen to that prophet, he will be utterly destroyed.’
And every one, without exception, who refuses to listen to that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among 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.
Yes, and all the Prophets, from Samuel onwards--all who have spoken--have also announced the coming of this present time.
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.’
"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 For you, first, God raised up his servant, and sent him to bless you, by turning each one of you from his wicked ways.”
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."
