Acts
3:11-21
(11) While he clung to Peter and
John, all the people ran together to them in the portico called Solomon's,
astounded.
(12) And when Peter saw it he
addressed the people: "Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do
you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?
(13) The God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his servant
Jesus, whom you delivered over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he
had decided to release him.
(14) But you denied the Holy and
Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
(15) and
you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are
witnesses.
(16) And his name--by faith in his
name--has made this man strong whom you see and know, and the faith that is
through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in the presence of you all.
(17) "And now, brothers, I
know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
(18) But what God foretold by the
mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.
(19) Repent
therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out,
(20) that
times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may
send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
(21) whom
heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God
spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.