New Testament · Gospels and Acts

Acts chapter 3

One day Peter and John were heading up to the for the — around three in the afternoon.There was a man who had been unable to walk since the day he was born. Every day, people would carry him to the temple gate called “the ” so he could ask for money from people going in.When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them for money.Peter him — so did John — and said, “Look at us.”The man gave them his full attention, expecting to get something from them.But Peter said, “I don’t have silver or gold, but what I do have, I’m giving you: in the of Jesus, , from Nazareth — get up and walk.”He the man’s right hand and pulled him up. Instantly, the man’s .He jumped to his feet and started walking! He went into the temple with them, walking and and God.Everyone there saw him walking and praising God,and they recognized him as the same man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate asking for money. They were and couldn’t believe what had happened to him.While the man held on to Peter and John, all the people came running toward them at the area called , completely amazed.When Peter saw this, he spoke to the crowd: “, why does this surprise you? Why are you staring at us as if we made this man walk by our own power or because we’re so ?”The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob — the God of our ancestors — has to his Jesus. You handed him over and rejected him in front of , even though Pilate had decided to let him go.You rejected , the one who , and instead asked for a to be released to you.You killed the itself, but God raised him from the dead. We are to this.It’s the power of Jesus’ name — and the that comes through him — that has made this man strong. You can see him right here, and you know who he is. The trust that Jesus gives is what has him, right in front of all of you.“Now, , I know that you acted out of — and so did your leaders.But this is how God fulfilled what he announced beforehand through all the — that his chosen one, The One, would suffer.So and to God, so that your can be and can come from ’s presence,and so that he can send Jesus, The One who was appointed for you ahead of time.Heaven must receive him until the time comes for God to , the restoration he talked about long ago through .Moses said, ‘Yahweh your God will for you from among your own people, just like he raised up me. You must listen to everything he tells you.Anyone who refuses to listen to that prophet will be completely .’“In fact, all the prophets from onward — every single one who spoke — announced what’s happening right now.You are the descendants of those prophets and the heirs of the God made with your ancestors when he told Abraham, ‘Through your , all the families of the earth will experience God’s .’God his and sent him to you first, to bring you by turning each of you away from your .”