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3:1  Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
3:2  And a man lame from the womb of his mother was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple · called the “Beautiful Gate” to ask alms from those entering into the temple.
3:3  When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms.
3:4  But Peter, looking directly at him, as did · John, said, “Look at us.”
3:5  So the lame man gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
3:6  But Peter said, “Silver and gold is not possessed by me, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk!”
3:7  Then taking him by the right hand, Peter raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong; · ·
3:8  and jumping up, he stood and began to walk and entered with them into the temple, walking and jumping and praising · God.
3:9  And all the people saw him walking and praising · God,
3:10  and recognized him—that he was the one who used to sit and ask for · alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. And they were filled with awe and amazement at what had happened to him.
3:11  While he clung to · · Peter and · John, all the people ran together to them in the covered walkway · called Solomon’s Portico, utterly astounded.
3:12  When Peter saw · · this, he replied to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him · walk?
3:13  The God of Abraham, · Isaac, and Jacob—the God of our fathers—glorified · his servant Jesus, whom you delivered over and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.
3:14  But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you,
3:15  and you killed the Originator of life, whom · God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
3:16  And on the basis of · faith in · his name—his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and know. · The faith that is through Jesus has given him · this wholeness before all of you.
3:17  And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your rulers as well. ·
3:18  But the things · God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, · he has fulfilled in this way.
3:19  Repent therefore, and turn again, for the blotting out of your · sins,
3:20  that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Messiah appointed for you, that is, Jesus,
3:21  whom heaven must receive until the time of restoration of all things, which God spoke · by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.
3:22  Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet from among · your brothers, as he raised me. You must obey him in all things whatsoever he speaks to you.
3:23  And it will be that every soul who does not obey · that prophet will be destroyed from among the people.’
3:24  And all · the prophets from Samuel and those who came after him, as many as have spoken, also announced · these days.
3:25  You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made · with · your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in · your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.’
3:26  God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, · · to bless you by · turning each one of you from · your wicked ways.”