Acts

¹Peter and John would go up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.^{1312 2}A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried. Every day, he was laid at the gate of the temple (the one which is called ‘Beautiful’) to ask alms¹³¹³ from those entering the temple. ³Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms. ⁴Then Peter, along with John, fixed his gaze on him and said, “Look at us!” ⁵The man¹³¹⁴ gave them [his] attention, expecting to receive something from them. ⁶But Peter said, “I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have, I give to you. In the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!” ⁷Peter took the man by the right hand and raised him up. At once, his feet and ankles received strength. ⁸Leaping up, the man stood up and began to walk! He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God! ⁹When all the people saw him walking and praising God, ¹⁰they recognized that it was the man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, begging for alms; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. ¹¹As the lame man who had been healed held on to Peter and John, all the people were greatly astonished and ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s [Porch].

Peter’s speech

¹²When Peter saw this, he answered the people, “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you gaze at us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? ¹³The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant¹³¹⁵ Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him. ¹⁴But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you. ¹⁵Then you killed the Author¹³¹⁶ of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. ¹⁶By faith in his Name, this man whom you see and know was made strong.¹³¹⁷ Yes, the faith which comes through Jesus has given him this perfect soundness as you all can see.

¹⁷Now, brethren, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did your leaders. ¹⁸Yet, this is how God fulfilled what he had announced by the mouth of all his prophets, [namely] that Christ should suffer.

¹⁹Repent therefore, and turn back [to God], so that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, ²⁰and that he may send Christ Jesus who was ordained in advance for you. ²¹He must remain in heaven until the times of restoration of all things, which God announced long ago by the mouth of all his holy prophets. ²²For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brethren. You shall listen to him in all that he tells you. ²³And it shall be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly cut off from among the people.’^{1318 24}In fact, all the prophets that have spoken, from Samuel to those who followed after [him], have also announced these days. ²⁵You are the children of the prophets, and [children] of the covenant which God made with our fathers when he said to Abraham, ‘In your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.’^{1319 26}God, having raised up [to life] his servant Jesus, sent him to you first, in order to bless you as every one of you turns away from his wicked ways.”

Peter and John arrested

1312. 3:00 pm
1313. Greek evlehmosu,nhn (gift of mercy offered to those in need)
1314. Greek “he”
1315. Or in context “child” (Greek paido,j)
1316. Greek avrchgo.n (sometimes translated “Prince of life”)
1317. A complex construction which could also be rendered “it is the Name of Jesus which, through faith in him”
1318. Deuteronomy 18:15,18-19
1319. Genesis 22:18; 26:4