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Peter and John were going up to the Temple at the hour of prayer, three in the afternoon. A man crippled from birth was being carried. They used to set him down every day at the Temple gate which is called “Beautiful,” so that he could beg from people going into the Temple. When he saw Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he begged for a gift. But Peter fastened his eyes on him, as did John, and said, “Look at us!” He stared at them expectantly, hoping to receive something from them. Peter said, “Money I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Messiah of Nazareth, walk!” Peter took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and ankles became strong, and he leapt to his feet and began walking. He entered the Temple with them, walking, leaping and praising God. All the people saw him walking and praising God. They recognized him as the one who used to sit begging for gifts at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, and they were filled with wonder and astonishment at what had happened to him. He held on to Peter and John. All the people, in utter amazement, ran together to them to the porch called Solomon’s Porch. When Peter saw this he addressed the people: “People of Israel, why are you amazed? Why are you staring at us as though by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk? 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. But you denied the holy and righteous one, and asked that a murderer be released to you instead. You killed the leader of life, whom God raised from the dead, and we are witnesses of that fact. Based on faith in Jesus’ name, that name has strengthened this man, whom you see and know. The faith which comes through Jesus has given this man perfect health in the presence of all of you. “Now, brothers and sisters, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did your rulers also. But the things which God foretold through all the prophets, that His Messiah would suffer, He has in this way fulfilled. Repent therefore and turn back, so that your sins may be blotted out and so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, and that He will send Jesus, the Messiah appointed for you. He must remain in heaven until the time for the restoration of all things, which God announced from long ago through His holy prophets. Moses said, ‘The Lord God will put on the scene of history a prophet like me from among your brothers. You are to listen to and obey him, everything he says to you. Everyone who will not listen to and obey that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ And all the prophets who have spoken have announced these days, from Samuel and those who followed after. You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, promising to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’ God produced His servant and sent him to you first to bless you, by turning every one of you away from your wickedness.”

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