A Lame Man Walks 2 UST There was a man there who had not been able to walk from the time he was born. He was sitting by the Beautiful Gate at the entrance to the temple area. People carried him there every day so that he could ask those who were going into the temple area to give him some money. BSB BSB: And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
3 UST As Peter and John were approaching that gate, he saw them and asked them to give him some money. BSB BSB: When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money.
4 UST When they heard the man speak to them, Peter and John looked directly at him, and Peter said to him,“Look at us!” BSB BSB: Peter looked directly at him, as did John. “Look at us!” said Peter.
5 UST So he looked directly at them, expecting to get some money from them. BSB BSB: So the man gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
6 UST Then Peter said to him,“I do not have any money, but I will do what I can do for you. I heal you by the power of Jesus the Messiah, that man who came from the city of Nazareth. So get up and walk!” BSB BSB: But Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
7 UST Then Peter grasped the man’ s right hand and helped him to stand up. The man realized immediately that his feet and ankles were going to be strong enough to support him. BSB BSB: Taking him by the right hand, Peter helped him up, and at once the man’s feet and ankles were made strong.
8 UST So the man jumped{ the rest of the way} up{ by himself} and started walking! He went into the temple area with Peter and John, leaping for joy and praising God as he walked! BSB BSB: He sprang to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and leaping and praising God.
9 UST All the people who were there saw him walking and heard him praising God. BSB BSB: When all the people saw him walking and praising God,
10 UST They recognized that he was the man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate that led into the temple area and ask people for money! So all the people there were greatly amazed that he could now walk. BSB BSB: they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
Peter Speaks in Solomon’s Colonnade (Deuteronomy 18:15–22)
11 UST The man would not let go of Peter and John. The three of them were in Solomon’ s Porch{, a covered walkway within the temple area}. As the amazing news of the man’ s healing spread through the crowd, more and more people came running over to see them. BSB BSB: While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and ran to them in the walkway called Solomon’s Colonnade.
12 UST When Peter saw that a crowd was gathering around them, he said to the people,“You Israelites, it should not surprise you that this man can now walk. But you should not be looking at us as if we were so godly that we made him walk by our own power! BSB BSB: And when Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you surprised by this? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?
13 UST { Let me tell you what has really happened.} God made a covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We Israelites are descendants of those men, so the covenant includes us. God honored that covenant by sending Jesus to be the Messiah.{ We told this man that the power of Jesus could heal him, and} God has now glorified Jesus by doing this miracle. But when Jesus was living among us, you turned him over to the Romans for trial. Pilate, the Roman governor,{ knew that Jesus was innocent and} wanted to set him free. But you gathered in front of Pilate and shouted that he should not release him. BSB BSB: The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus. You handed Him over and rejected Him before Pilate, even though he had decided to release Him.
14 UST Rather than have Pilate release Jesus to you, even though Jesus was the Messiah, you rejected him and asked Pilate to set free a killer instead! BSB BSB: You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
15 UST So you are responsible for the death of Jesus, the one who gives people life. But God brought him back to life after he died. We can testify that we saw Jesus many times after he became alive again. BSB BSB: You killed the Author of life, but God raised Him from the dead, and we are witnesses of this fact.
16 UST You recognize this man whom you see standing here.{ He is the man who used to beg for alms at the Beautiful Gate.} He is now strong enough to stand on his own because he believed in what Jesus could do. Yes, it is because he trusted in Jesus that he is now completely healthy. All of you saw this happen. BSB BSB: By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know has been made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through Him that has given him this complete healing in your presence.
17 UST Now, my countrymen, I know that you and your leaders killed Jesus because you did not know that he was the Messiah. BSB BSB: And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.
18 UST God said through the prophets ahead of time that the Messiah he would send would suffer and die. And now, by what has happened, he has fulfilled what the prophets said. BSB BSB: But in this way God has fulfilled what He foretold through all the prophets, saying that His Christ would suffer.
19 UST So stop living sinful lives and ask God to help you do what pleases him. Then God will completely forgive you for sinning against him. BSB BSB: Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,
20 UST If you do that, there will be times when you will know that the Lord God is helping you. And some day he will send back to earth the Messiah whom he has given to you. That person is Jesus. BSB BSB: that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that He may send Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you.
23 UST Those who do not do what that prophet tells them will no longer belong to God’ s people. God will destroy them.’” BSB BSB: Everyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.’
24 UST { Peter continued,}“In fact, all the prophets have told about what would happen during the times we are now living in. Those prophets include Samuel and the ones who lived after him, who all spoke about these events before they happened. BSB BSB: Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.
25 UST What the prophets said long ago applies to you today. And the solemn agreement that God made to bless our ancestors also extends to you, their descendants. He said to Abraham{ about the Messiah},‘I will bless all the people groups on the earth as a result of what your descendant will do.’ BSB BSB: And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.’
26 UST So when God sent Jesus to the earth as the Messiah, he had him come to you Israelites first. God intended for the Messiah to bless you by getting you to stop doing things that were wrong.” BSB BSB: When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your wicked ways.”
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