Acts 3
1 One day Peter and John were going up to the Temple for the hour of prayer--the ninth hour--and, just then,
And it occurred, as Simon Cephas and John went together up to the temple, at the time of prayer, being the ninth hour,
2 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.
that, lo, those accustomed to bring a man lame from his mother's womb, brought him and laid him at the gate of the temple called Beautiful; that he might ask alms of those going into the temple.
3 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he asked them for alms.
This man, when he saw Simon and John going into the temple, asked them to give him alms.
4 Peter fixing his eyes on him, as John did also, said, "Look at us."
And Simon and John looked on him, and said to him: Look on us.
5 So he looked and waited, expecting to receive something from them.
And he looked on them, expecting to receive something from them.
6 "I have no silver or gold," Peter said, "but what I have, I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene-- walk!"
Simon said to him: Gold and silver, I have not; but what I have, I give to thee; in the name of our Lord Jesus Messiah, the Nazarean, rise up and walk.
7 Then taking his hand Peter lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were strengthened.
And he took him by the right hand, and raised him up: and forthwith, his feet and his heels recovered strength.
8 Leaping up, he stood upright and began to walk, and went into the Temple with them, walking, leaping, and praising God.
And he sprang, stood up, and walked: and he entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.
9 All the people saw him walking and praising God;
And all the people saw him, as he walked and praised God.
10 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.
And they knew that he was the beggar, who sat daily and asked alms, at the gate called Beautiful: and they were filled with wonder and admiration at what had occurred.
11 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.
And as he held fast to Simon and John, all the people admiring ran to them at the portico called Solomon's.
12 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?
And when Simon saw it, he answered and said to them: Men, sons of Israel, why do ye wonder at this? or why do ye gaze on us, as if by our own power or authority we had made this man to walk?
13 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.
The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he would have justified him and set him free.
14 Yes, you disowned the holy and righteous One, and asked as a favour the release of a murderer.
But ye denied the holy and just One, and demanded that a murderer should be released to you.
15 The Prince of Life you put to death; but God has raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses as to that.
And that Prince of life ye slew; and him, hath God raised from the dead, and all of us are witnesses of it.
16 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.
And, by the faith in his name, he hath strengthened and cured this man, whom ye see and know; and faith in him hath given the man this soundness before you all.
17 "And now, brethren, I know that it was in ignorance that you did it, as was the case with your rulers also.
And now, my brethren, I know that through misapprehensions ye did this, as did also your chiefs:
18 But in this way God has fulfilled the declarations He made through all the Prophets, that His Christ would suffer.
and God, according as he had previously announced by the mouth of all the prophets that the Messiah would suffer, hath in this manner fulfilled it.
19 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,
Repent, therefore, and be converted; that so your sins may be blotted out,
20 and that He may send the Christ appointed beforehand for you--even Jesus.
and times of rest may come to you from before the face of the Lord; and he may send to you him, who was made ready for you, Jesus the Messiah:
21 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)
whom the heavens must retain, until the completion of the times of those things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets of old. (aiōn g165)
22 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.
For Moses said: A prophet, like me, will the Lord raise up to you, from among your brethren; to him hearken ye, in all that he shall say to you.
23 And every one, without exception, who refuses to listen to that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the People.'
And it will be, that every soul who will not hearken to that prophet, that soul shall perish from his people.
24 Yes, and all the Prophets, from Samuel onwards--all who have spoken--have also announced the coming of this present time.
And all the prophets that have been, from Samuel and those after him, have spoken and proclaimed of these days.
25 "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.'
Ye are the children of the prophets: and that covenant which God made with our fathers, when he said to Abraham, that in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed,
26 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."
he hath first established to you: and God hath sent his Son to bless you, if ye will be converted, and repent of your wickedness.
