03:01 .. now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the ninth hour .. the hour of prayer 03:02 .. and a man who had been lame from his mother’s womb was being carried along .. whom they bused to set down every day ......... at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful .. in order to beg alms of those who were entering the temple 03:03 .. when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple .. he began asking to receive alms 03:04 .. but Peter .. along with John .. fixed his gaze on him and said . . . look at us 03:05 .. and he began to give them his attention .. expecting to receive something from them 03:06 .. but Peter said . . . I do not possess silver and gold .. but what I do have I give to you .. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene . . . walk 03:07 .. and seizing him by the right hand .. he raised him up .. and immediately his feet and his nkles were strengthened 03:08 .. with a leap he stood upright and began to walk .. and he entered the temple with them .. walking and leaping and praising God 03:09 .. and all the people saw him walking and praising God 03:10 .. and they were taking note of him as being the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms .. ......... and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him
.................. Peter’s second sermon
03:11 .. while he was clinging to Peter and John .. all the people ran together to them at the so-called portico of Solomon .. full of amazement 03:12 .. but when Peter saw this .. he replied to the people . . . men of Israel .. why are you amazed at this .. or why do you gaze at us .. ......... as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk 03:13 .. the God of Abraham .. Isaac and Jacob .. the God of our fathers .. has glorified his servant Jesus .. ......... the one whom you delivered and disowned in the presence of Pilate .. when he had decided to release him 03:14 .. but you disowned the holy and righteous one and asked for a murderer to be granted to you 03:15 .. but put to death the prince of life .. the one whom God raised from the dead .. a fact to which we are witnesses 03:16 .. and on the basis of faith in his name .. it is the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know .. ......... and the faith which comes through him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all 03:17 .. and now .. brethren .. I know that you acted in ignorance .. just as your rulers did also 03:18 .. but the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets .. that his Christ would suffer .. he has thus fulfilled
03:19 .. therefore repent and return .. so that your sins may be wiped away .. in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord 03:20 .. and that he may send Jesus .. the Christ appointed for you 03:21 .. whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from ancient time 03:22 .. Moses said . . . the Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brethren .. to him you shall give heed to everything he says to you 03:23 .. and it will be that every soul that does not heed that prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people 03:24 .. and likewise .. all the prophets who have spoken .. from Samuel and his successors onward .. also announced these days 03:25 .. It is you who 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 03:26 .. for you first .. God raised up his servant and sent him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways
The hand of compassion .. extended by Spirit-filled men .. in the name of Jesus Christ .. the risen Lord .. is fraught with power to lift men heavenward . . . the cures of Christ are visible to all .. let men therefore know that he who was crucified was none other than the Prince of Life . . . . v 15 They preserved a murderer .. a destroyer of life .. and thought to destroy the Saviour .. the author of life .. but God raised him from the dead .. proving that in fighting against Jesus .. they were fighting against God . . . the doctrine of Jesus Christ was thereby confirmed .. and the reproach of his sufferings was rolled away