Dual Panel1ONE day at three in the afternoon, the hour of prayer, Peter and John were on their way up to the temple.
2Now a man who had been a cripple from birth used to be carried there and laid every day by the temple gate called Beautiful to beg from people as they went in.
3When he saw Peter and John on their way into the temple, he asked for alms.
4They both fixed their eyes on him, and Peter said, “Look at us.”
5Expecting a gift from them, the man was all attention.
6Peter said, “I have no silver or gold; but what I have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk.”
7Then, grasping him by the right hand he helped him up; and at once his feet and ankles grew strong;
8he sprang to his feet, and started to walk. He entered the temple with them, leaping and praising God as he went.
9Everyone saw him walking and praising God,
10and when they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at Beautiful Gate they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
11While he still clung to Peter and John all the people came running in astonishment towards them in Solomon's Portico, as it is called.
12Peter saw them coming and met them with these words: “Men of Israel, why be surprised at this? Why stare at us as if we had made this man walk by some power or godliness of our own?
13The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has given the highest honour to his servant Jesus, whom you handed over for trial and disowned in Pilate's court -- disowned the holy and righteous one when Pilate had decided to release him. You asked for the reprieve of a murderer,
14(3:13)
15and killed the Prince of life. But God raised him from the dead; of that we are witnesses.
16The name of Jesus, by awakening faith, has given strength to this man whom you see and know, and this faith has made him completely well as you can all see.
17“Now, my friends, I know quite well that you acted in ignorance, as did your rulers;
18but this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets: that his Messiah would suffer.
19Repent, therefore, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out. Then the Lord may grant you a time of recovery
20and send the Messiah appointed for you, that is, Jesus.
21He must be received into heaven until the time comes for the universal restoration of which God has spoken through his holy prophets from the beginning.
22Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among yourselves. Listen to everything he says to you,
23for anyone who refuses to listen to that prophet must be cut off from the people.’
24From Samuel onwards, every prophet who spoke predicted this present time.
25“You are the heirs of the prophets, and of that covenant which God made with your fathers when he said to Abraham, ‘And in your offspring all the families on earth shall find blessing.’
26When God raised up his servant, he sent him to you first, to bring you blessing by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.”