Acts 3
1 Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
One day, as Peter and John were going up into the Temple Courts for the three o’clock Prayers,
2 A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
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.
3 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.
Seeing Peter and John on the point of entering, he asked them to give him something.
4 Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, “Look at us.”
Peter fixed his eyes on him, and so did John, and then Peter said, ‘Look at us.’
5 He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.
The man was all attention, expecting to get something from them;
6 But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
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.’
7 He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.
Grasping the lame man by the right hand, Peter lifted him up. Instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong,
8 Leaping up, he stood and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.
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.
9 All the people saw him walking and praising God.
All the people saw him walking about and praising God;
10 They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
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.
11 As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.
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.
12 When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
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?
13 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, when he had determined to release him.
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.
14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
You, I say, disowned the holy and righteous one, and asked for the release of a murderer!
15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
The guide to life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead – and of that we are ourselves witnesses.
16 By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
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.
17 “Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
And yet, my friends, I know that you acted as you did from ignorance, and your rulers also.
18 But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
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.
19 “Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
Therefore, repent and turn so that your sins may be wiped away; so that happier times may come from the Lord himself,
20 and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before,
and so that he may send you, in Jesus, your long-appointed Christ.
21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets. (aiōn g165)
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)
22 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.
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.
23 It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’
And it will be that should anyone among the people not listen to that prophet, he will be utterly destroyed.”
24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, also told of these days.
Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel onwards, and all their successors who had a message to deliver, told of these days.
25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’
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.”
26 God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”
For you, first, God raised up his servant, and sent him to bless you, by turning each one of you from his wicked ways.’
