3:1Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth. 3:2And a certain man, who was lame from his mother's womb, was being carried: whom they were placing daily at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, so that he might ask for alms from those going into the temple. 3:3He, when he had seen Peter and John beginning to go into the temple, was asking that he might receive alms. 3:4But Peter, gazing at him with John, said: "Look at us." 3:5And he was attending to them, hoping that he would receive something from them. 3:6But Peter said: "Silver and gold there is not for me: but what I have, this I give to you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene rise, and walk."
3:7And his right hand having been grasped, he lifted him up, and immediately his feet and soles were made firm. 3:8And leaping up he stood, and was walking: and he went in with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. 3:9And all the people saw him walking and praising God. 3:10And they recognized him, that he was the one who used to sit for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with amazement and astonishment at what had happened to him. 3:11But while he was holding Peter and John, all the people ran to them to the porch which is called Solomon's, stunned.
3:12But Peter, seeing it, answered to the people: "Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or authority we had made this man walk? 3:13The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers has glorified his son Jesus, whom you indeed handed over, and denied before the face of Pilate, when he was judging that he be released. 3:14But you denied the holy and just one, and asked for a man who was a murderer to be granted to you: but the author of life you killed, whom God raised up from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
3:16And in faith in his name, this man whom you have seen and know, his name has made strong: and the faith, which is through him, has given this complete soundness in the sight of all of you. 3:17And now, brothers, I know that you did it through ignorance, as did your rulers too. 3:18But God, the things which he foretold through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, has thus fulfilled. 3:19Repent therefore and be converted, so that your sins may be wiped out: so that, when the times of refreshment come from the presence of the Lord, he may also send him who was preached to you, Jesus Christ, whom heaven indeed must receive until the times of the restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old.
3:22Moses indeed said: 'A prophet will the Lord your God raise up for you from your brothers, like me: him you will hear in all things whatever he speaks to you. 3:23And it will be: every soul which does not hear that prophet will be destroyed out of the people.' 3:24And all the prophets, from Samuel and onwards, who have spoken, have announced these days. 3:25You are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God arranged with our fathers, saying to Abraham: 'And in your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed.' 3:26To you first God, raising up his son, sent him blessing you: so that each one may turn himself from his wickedness."