Acts 3

A Command in Jesus' Name Acts 3:3–6

³Verse 3. Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy. ⁴Verse 4. Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, “Look at us.” ⁵Verse 5. He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them. ⁶Verse 6. But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”

The Miraculous Healing Acts 3:7–10

⁷Verse 7. He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength. ⁸Verse 8. Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God. ⁹Verse 9. All the people saw him walking and praising God. ¹⁰Verse 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.

Peter's Explanation of the Miracle Acts 3:11–16

¹¹Verse 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. ¹²Verse 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? ¹³Verse 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.

¹⁴Verse 14. But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, ¹⁵Verse 15. and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses. ¹⁶Verse 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.

Call to Repentance and Refreshing Acts 3:17–21

¹⁷Verse 17. “Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers. ¹⁸Verse 18. But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled. ¹⁹Verse 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, ²⁰Verse 20. and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before, ²¹Verse 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.

Prophetic Fulfillment and Blessing Acts 3:22–26

²²Verse 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. ²³Verse 23. It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ ²⁴Verse 24. Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days. ²⁵Verse 25. You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘In your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.’

²⁶Verse 26. God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.”