3:1  Now Peter and John went up to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer.

3:2  And people carried a man who suffered from lameness from his mother's womb , whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which people call Beautiful, in order to beg alms of those who entered the temple.

3:3   When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking to receive alms.

3:4  But Peter, along with John, fixed his gaze on him and said, "Look at us!"

3:5   And he began to give them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.

3:6   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!"

3:7   And seizing him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and his ankles strengthened.

3:8   With a leap he stood upright and began to walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

3:9   And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

3:10   and they took note of him as the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms, and they became filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

3:11  While he still clung to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them at the so-called portico of Solomon, full of amazement.

3:12   But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, "Men of Israel, why do you express amazement at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?

3:13  " 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.

3:14   "But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked Pilate to grant you a murderer,

3:15   but put to death the Prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead, a fact to which we witness.

3:16  "And on the basis of faith in His name, 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.

3:17   "And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.

3:18   "But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

3:19   "Therefore repent and return, so that God may wipe your sins away, in order that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

3:20   and that He may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you,

3:21   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.

3:22   "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.

3:23   ' And it will come to pass that every soul that does not heed that prophet shall suffer destruction from among the people.'

3:24   "And likewise, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and his successors onward, also announced these days.

3:25   " You sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, said to Abraham, ' AND IN YOUR SEED ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL RECEIVE BLESSING.'

3:26   "For you first, God raised up His Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways."