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1 Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of :prayer, the ninth. 2 And a certain man that was lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple :called Beautiful :to ask an alms of them that entered into the temple; 3 who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms. 4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him, with :John, said, Look on us. 5 And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something from them. 6 But Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but what I have, that give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, walk. 7 And he took him by the right hand, and raised him up: and immediately his :feet and :ankle-bones received strength. 8 And leaping up, he stood, and began to walk; and he entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising :God. 9 And all the people saw him walking and praising :God: 10 and they took knowledge of him, that it was he that sat for :alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. 11 And as he held :Peter and :John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch :called Solomon’s, greatly wondering. 12 And :Peter seeing it, answered unto the people, Men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why fasten ye your eyes on us, as though by special power or godliness we had made him to walk? 13 The God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our :fathers, hath glorified his servant Jesus; whom YE delivered up, and denied before Pilate’s face, when HE had determined to release him. 14 But YE denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer [man] to be granted you, 15 and killed the Prince of :life; whom :God raised from the dead; †whereof we are witnesses. 16 And by the faith in his :name hath his :name strengthened this man, whom ye behold and know: and the faith which is through him hath given him this perfect :soundness in the presence of you all. 17 And now, brethren, I know that in ignorance ye did it, even as did also your :rulers. 18 But the things which :God foreshowed through the mouth of all the prophets, that his :Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled. 19 Repent therefore, and turn again, unto the blotting out of your :sins, that so seasons of refreshing may come from the Lord’s face; 20 and he send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus: 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, whereof :God spake by the mouth of his :holy prophets that have been from of old. 22 Moses indeed said [that] A prophet shall the Lord God raise up unto you from your :brethren, like unto me; to him shall ye hearken in all things whatsoever he shall speak unto you. 23 And it shall be, that every soul that shall not hearken to that :prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people. 24 And all the prophets from Samuel and them that followed, as many as have spoken, they also told of these :days. 25 YE are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which :God covenanted with your :fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy :seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 26 To you first :God, having raised up his :servant, sent him to bless you, in turning each away from your :iniquities.