Acts of the Apostles 3

The Lame Man at the Beautiful Gate

1Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2A man lame from birth was being carried in. Every day they would set him down at the temple gate called Beautiful, to beg from those going inside. 3When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for something. 4Peter fixed his eyes on him, and so did John, and he said, “Look at us.” 5The man gave them his full attention, expecting to receive something. 6Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk.” 7He took him by the right hand and raised him up, and at once the man’s feet and ankles grew firm. 8He sprang up, stood, and began to walk; and he went into the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. 9All the people saw him walking and praising God, 10and they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and astonishment at what had happened to him.

Peter Speaks in Solomon’s Colonnade

11While he clung to Peter and John, all the people came running to them in the colonnade called Solomon’s, utterly amazed. 12Seeing this, Peter said to the people: “Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? Why stare at us, as though we had made this man walk by our own power or godliness? 13The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and disowned before Pilate, when Pilate had decided to release him. 14You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be given to you instead. 15You killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead; of that we are witnesses. 16And it is his name that has made this man strong — this man you see and know. It is the faith that comes through Jesus that has given him perfect health, here in front of you all. 17And now, brothers and sisters, I know that you acted in ignorance, and so did your rulers. 18But this is how God fulfilled what he had announced beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets: that his Christ would suffer. 19So repent and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away and times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20and he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus, 21whom heaven must keep until the time comes for all things to be restored, of which God spoke long ago through the mouth of his holy prophets. 22Moses said: ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. Listen to him in everything he tells you. 23Anyone who does not listen to that prophet will be cut off from the people.’ 24And all the prophets from Samuel onward, all who have spoken, have also announced these days. 25You are the heirs of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, when he said to Abraham, ‘And through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’ 26It was to you first that God sent his servant, when he raised him up, to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”