A man lame from birth

1Now Peter and John were going up together into the temple at the hour (the ninth) ⁷¹of prayer. ⁷²

2And a certain man, who had actually been lame from his mother's womb, was being carried (they would lay him daily at the temple gate, the one called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the temple),

3who, upon seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, began asking for alms.

Peter heals him

4So Peter, with John, fastening his gaze on him said, “Look at us.”

5So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.

6But Peter said: “I do not have silver and gold, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ the Natsorean, get up and walk!” ⁷³

7And grasping him by his right hand he lifted him up; ⁷⁴immediately his feet and ankles were strengthened.

8So jumping up he stood, and began to walk! ⁷⁵And he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping ⁷⁶and praising God.

9Well all the people saw him walking and praising God;

10and they recognized him—that he was the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, with a view to alms—and they were filled with wonder and amazement because of what had happened to him.

Peter preaches

11Now as the lame man who had been healed held on ⁷⁷to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico, the one called ‘Solomon's’, really wondering.

12So upon observing this Peter responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why are you marveling at this, or why are you staring at us as if we have made him walk by our own power or godliness? ⁷⁸

13The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up; and you repudiated Him to Pilate's face, when he was intending to release Him. ⁷⁹

14Yes you repudiated the holy and righteous One, and you asked that a murderer be granted to you, ⁸⁰

15while you killed the Originator of the Life, ⁸¹whom God raised from among the dead, to which we are witnesses.

16Well His name, based on faith in His name, ⁸²made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith that is through Him ⁸³has given him this wholeness in the presence of you all.

17“So now, brothers, I know that you did it in ignorance, as also your rulers.

18But the things that God foretold through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Messiah would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

19Repent therefore, and turn around, so that your sins may be erased, in order that times of refreshing may come from the Lord's face ⁸⁴

20and that He may send Jesus, who had been ordained to be your Messiah, ⁸⁵

21whom Heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, ⁸⁶of which times ⁸⁷God spoke long ago by the mouth of all His holy prophets.

22“For example, Moses said to the fathers: ⁸⁸‘The Lord our ⁸⁹God will raise up for you a Prophet, like me, from among your brothers. You must listen to Him, in all that He may say to you.

23It will be that every person who will not listen to that Prophet will be extirpated from among the people.’ ⁹⁰

24“Yes and all the prophets, from Samuel on down, ⁹¹as many as have spoken, have also foretold ⁹²these days.

25You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘Yes, in your seed ⁹³all the families ⁹⁴of the earth will be blessed.’

26God, having raised up His Servant Jesus, ⁹⁵sent Him to you first, ⁹⁶to bless you by turning each of you away from your iniquities.” ⁹⁷