Peter heals the cripple at the temple gate
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📚✭Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, three in the afternoon. 2 📚And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was being carried to beg from those entering the temple (daily they laid him at the temple gate which is called Beautiful). 3 He saw Peter and John about to go into the temple and asked for money. 4 📚✭And Peter, together with John, fixed his eyes on him and said, “Look at us”. 5 And he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. 6 📚✭Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk”. 7 📚✭And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. 8 📚✭And he leaped up and stood, and walked, and went with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. 9 📚And all the people saw him walking and praising God. 10 📚✭And they knew that it was he who sat begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
Peter’s message at the temple
11 📚✭And while the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico that is called Solomon’s, greatly astonished. 12 📚✭And when Peter saw this he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? Or why do you look so intently at us, as though by our own power or holiness we caused this man to walk? 13 📚✭The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus whom you delivered up and denied✭ in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. 14 📚But you denied the Holy One and the Just✭, and asked for a murderer to be given to you, 15 📚and killed the Prince✭ of life, whom God raised from the dead. Of this we are witnesses✭. 16 📚✭And his name, through faith in his name, has made this man strong, this man whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is granted through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
17 📚“And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, as your rulers also did. 18 📚But those things which God foretold through the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ would suffer, he has fulfilled in this way. 19 📚Repent✭, therefore, and be converted, so that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing might come from the presence of the Lord, 20 📚✭and that he might send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you previously. 21 📚✭Him heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all things✭, which God has spoken through the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. 22 📚✭For Moses truly said to the fathers, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brethren. You must listen to him in everything he says to you. 23 📚And it will be that every soul who will not listen to that prophet will be destroyed from among the people.’
24 📚✭“Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed him, all who spoke, likewise foretold these days. 25 📚✭You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed.’ 26 📚God, having raised up his Son Jesus✭, sent him first to you to bless you✭, by turning each one of you away from his sins”.