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Acts 3

Healing the Lame Beggar

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Now  aPeter and John were going up to the temple at the  1ninth hour,  bthe hour of prayer.

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And  aa man who had been lame from his mother's womb was being carried along, whom they  bused to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful,  cin order to beg  1alms of those who were entering the temple.

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

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But Peter, along with John,  afixed his gaze on him and said, "Look at us!"

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

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But Peter said, "I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you:  aIn the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene--walk!"

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

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 1 aWith a leap he stood upright and began to walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.

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And  aall the people saw him walking and praising God;

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and they were taking note of him as being the one who used to  asit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

Peter's Second Sermon

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While he was clinging to  aPeter and John, all the people ran together to them at the so-called  1 bportico of Solomon, full of amazement.

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

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aThe God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,  bthe God of our fathers, has glorified His  1 cservant Jesus, the one whom  dyou delivered and disowned in the presence of  ePilate, when he had  fdecided to release Him.

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"But you disowned  athe Holy and Righteous One and  basked for a murderer to be granted to you,

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but put to death the  1 aPrince of life, the one whom  bGod raised from the dead, a fact to which we are  cwitnesses.

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"And on the basis of faith  ain His name, it is  1the 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.

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"And now, brethren, I know that you acted  ain ignorance, just as your  brulers did also.

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"But the things which  aGod announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets,  bthat His  1Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

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"Therefore  arepent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that  btimes of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord;

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and that He may send Jesus, the  1Christ appointed for you,

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 awhom heaven must receive until the  1period of  brestoration of all things about which  cGod spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.

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"Moses said, ` aTHE LORD GOD WILL RAISE UP FOR YOU A PROPHET  1LIKE ME FROM YOUR BRETHREN; TO HIM YOU SHALL GIVE HEED to everything He says to you.

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aAnd it will be that every  bsoul that does not heed that prophet  cshall be utterly destroyed from among the people.'

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

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"It is you who are  athe sons of the prophets and of the  bcovenant which God  1made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ` cAND IN YOUR SEED ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED.'

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"For you  afirst, God  braised up His  1Servant and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways."



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