Acts Chapter 3
Healing the Lame Man at Gate Beautiful
1 Peter and John were going up into the Temple at 3 o’clock prayer. 2 Daily, people had been carrying a man crippled from birth and taking him to the Temple gate called Gate Beautiful to ask for alms from people going into the Temple. 3 When he saw Peter and John about to go in, he asked for alms. 4 Peter looked at him with John and said, “Look at us.”
5 He gave them his full attention, expecting to receive something.
6 Peter said, “I don’t have any money, but I’ll give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus the Messiah, the Nazarene, get up and walk.”
7 He took his right hand and lifted him up. Instantly his feet and ankles strengthened. 8 He jumped up and stood and started walking around. He went into the Temple with them, walking and jumping and praising God. 9 The people saw him 10 and recognized him as the beggar at Gate Beautiful. They were astounded.
Acts 3:1-10
Peter’s Sermon at Solomon’s Portico
11 While he kept holding onto Peter and John, the people rushed to them in Solomon’s Portico, utterly astonished. 12 When Peter saw it, he responded,
“Israelites, why are you amazed at him? Why stare at us as if we made him walk by our power or godliness? 13 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’s God—our ancestors’ God [Ex 3:6, 15]—has glorified his Son Jesus. He’s the One you delivered up to Pilate when he’d decided to release him. 14 You rejected the Holy and Just One, and asked Pilate to grant you a murderer. 15 You killed the author of life that God has resurrected, the One we’re witnesses for. 16 He’s the One that made this man strong. Faith working through him has made this man you know completely well as you can see.
Acts 3:11-16
17 “Now brothers, I know you didn’t realize what you were doing—your rulers didn’t either. 18 But that’s the way God fulfilled what he announced beforehand by many prophets: that his Messiah would suffer. 19 So repent: God will erase your sins. 20 Times of renewal will come from the LORD, and he’ll send the Messiah Jesus that he appointed for you. 21 Heaven needs to receive him till God establishes everything he said through his holy prophets so long ago. 22 Moses said,
‘From among you the LORD your God will raise up a prophet for you like me. Listen to everything he tells you. 23 Every person that doesn’t will perish from the people’ [Deut 18:15-16].
24 The prophets from Samuel on have told about our time. 25 You’re descendants of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your ancestors. He told Abraham,
‘Your descendants will bless all the nations’ [Gen 22:18; 26:4].
26 God has resurrected his Son Jesus and sent him first to you to ‘bless’ you when you turn away from your sins.”
Acts 3:17-26