| 3:1 | Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time* for prayer,* at three o’clock in the afternoon.* |
| 3:2 | And a man lame* from birth* was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called “the Beautiful Gate” every day* so he could beg for money* from those going into the temple courts.* |
| 3:3 | When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts,* he asked them for money.* |
| 3:4 | Peter looked directly* at him (as did John) and said, “Look at us!” |
| 3:5 | So the lame man* paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them. |
| 3:6 | But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold,* but what I do have I give you. In the name* of Jesus Christ* the Nazarene, stand up and* walk!” |
| 3:7 | Then* Peter* took hold* of him by the right hand and raised him up, and at once the man’s* feet and ankles were made strong.* |
| 3:8 | He* jumped up,* stood and began walking around, and he entered the temple courts* with them, walking and leaping and praising God. |
| 3:9 | All* the people saw him walking and praising God, |
| 3:10 | and they recognized him as the man who used to sit and ask for donations* at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with astonishment and amazement* at what had happened to him. |
| 3:11 | While the man* was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway* called Solomon’s Portico.* |
| 3:12 | When Peter saw this, he declared to the people, “Men of Israel,* why are you amazed at this? Why* do you stare at us as if we had made this man* walk by our own power or piety? |
| 3:13 | The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,* the God of our forefathers,* has glorified* his servant* Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected* in the presence of Pilate after he had decided* to release him. |
| 3:14 | But you rejected* the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you. |
| 3:15 | You killed* the Originator* of life, whom God raised* from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!* |
| 3:16 | And on the basis of faith in Jesus’* name,* his very name has made this man – whom you see and know – strong. The* faith that is through Jesus* has given him this complete health in the presence* of you all. |
| 3:17 | And now, brothers, I know you acted in ignorance,* as your rulers did too. |
| 3:18 | But the things God foretold* long ago through* all the prophets – that his Christ* would suffer – he has fulfilled in this way. |
| 3:19 | Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out, |
| 3:20 | so that times of refreshing* may come from the presence of the Lord,* and so that he may send the Messiah* appointed* for you – that is, Jesus. |
| 3:21 | This one* heaven must* receive until the time all things are restored,* which God declared* from times long ago* through his holy prophets. |
| 3:22 | Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must obey* him in everything he tells you.* |
| 3:23 | Every person* who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed* from the people.’* |
| 3:24 | And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced* these days. |
| 3:25 | You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors,* saying to Abraham, ‘And in your descendants* all the nations* of the earth will be blessed.’* |
| 3:26 | God raised up* his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning* each one of you from your iniquities.”* |
Acts 3 - NET Bible [draft]
