Today's Bible Passage is "Acts
Chapter 3"
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3:1 Peter and John
were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
3:2 A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being
carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called
Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the
temple. 3:3 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked
to receive gifts for the needy. 3:4 Peter, fastening his eyes on him,
with John, said, “Look at us.” 3:5 He listened to them, expecting to
receive something from them. 3:6 But Peter said, “Silver and gold have
I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ
of Nazareth, get up and walk!” 3:7 He took him by the right hand, and
raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received
strength. 3:8 Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He entered with
them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God. 3:9 All the
people saw him walking and praising God. 3:10 They recognized him, that
it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the
Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and
amazement at what had happened to him. 3:11 As the lame man who was
healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them
in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.
3:12 When Peter saw it, he responded
to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why
do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness
we had made him walk? 3:13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the
God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered
up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to
release him. 3:14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked
for a murderer to be granted to you, 3:15 and killed the Prince of
life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses. 3:16 By
faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and
know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect
soundness in the presence of you all.
3:17 “Now, brothers, I know that you
did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 3:18 But the things
which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ
should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
3:19 “Repent therefore, and turn
again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times
of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, 3:20 and that he may send
Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before, 3:21 whom heaven must
receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke
long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets. 3:22 For Moses indeed said
to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from
among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things
whatever he says to you. 3:23 It will be, that every soul that will not
listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the
people.’* 3:24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who
followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days.
3:25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which
God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘In your seed will all
the families of the earth be blessed.’* 3:26 God, having raised up his
servant, Jesus, sent him to you first, to bless you, in turning away
everyone of you from your wickedness.”
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