Shared Word Translation
Acts 3
The Healing of the Lame Man
Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. And a certain man, lame from his mother’s womb, was being carried, whom they were placing daily at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms from those entering into the temple.
Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he was asking to receive alms. But Peter, looking intently at him with John, said, “Look at us.” And he was giving attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.
But Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I have, this I give to you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk.” And taking him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.
And leaping up, he stood and began to walk, and he entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God. And all the people saw him walking and praising God, and they were recognizing him, that this was the one sitting for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
Peter Speaks in Solomon’s Portico
And while he was holding fast to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon’s, greatly astonished. And seeing this, Peter answered the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?
The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release him. But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a man who was a murderer to be granted to you, and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
And by faith in his name, this one whom you see and know, his name has made strong; and the faith that is through him has given him this complete health in the presence of you all.
And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as also your rulers did. But the things which God foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he has thus fulfilled.
Therefore repent and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old.
Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers; you shall listen to him in everything that he speaks to you. And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from the people.’
And all the prophets from Samuel and those following after, as many as have spoken, also announced these days. You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’
To you first, God, having raised up his servant, sent him to bless you by turning each of you from your wickedness.”