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Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer—at the ninth hour. 2 There was a man there who had been lame from his mother’s womb. Every day he was carried there and placed at the temple gate called Beautiful, so he could beg from those going into the temple courts. 3 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked for help. 4 Peter looked directly at him, and so did John. Then Peter said, “Look at us!” 5 So the man looked at them, expecting to get something from them.
6 Then Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!” 7 Then he took him by the right hand and helped him up, and immediately the man’s feet and ankles became strong. 8 So he jumped up, stood and started to walk, and he entered the temple courts with them, walking and leaping and praising God. 9 When all the people saw him walking and praising God, 10 they recognized him as one who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
11 While the beggar was holding on to Peter and John, all the people, greatly amazed, came running to them in the place called Solomon’s Portico. 12 When Peter saw this, he addressed the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or godliness we made this man walk? 13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release Him. 14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked to have a murderer released to you. 15 You killed the Author of Life, whom God has raised from the dead. We are witnesses of this. 16 By faith in His name, His name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. So the faith that comes through Jesus has given perfect health to him before you all.
17 “Now brothers, I know you acted in ignorance, just as your leaders also did. 18 But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets—that the Christ would suffer—He has fulfilled in this way. 19 Repent then and turn to God, so your sins may be blotted out and times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, 20 and He may send Jesus, who has been appointed the Messiah for you. 21 He must remain in heaven until the comes for the restoration of all things, which has God spoken of through the mouth of His holy prophets from the beginning. 22 For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to everything He will say to you. 23 It will be that anyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be completely cut off from among the people.
24 “In addition, all the prophets from Samuel and those after him, as many as has spoken, have also foretold these days. 25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with the fathers. He said to Abraham, ‘In your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed’. 26 When God raised up His Servant, He sent Him first to you to bless you by turning each of you from your evil ways.”