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* PETER and John were going up into the Temple courts at the hour of prayer , three o 'clock , * when a man lame from his birth was being carried along . This man used to be placed every day near the gate of the Temple courts \'97 the one called the Beautiful Gate \'97 to beg of those who were entering . * Seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple courts , he begged to receive something . * But Peter fixing his eyes on him , along with John , said , "Look at us ." * He gave attention to them , expecting to receive something from them . * But Peter said , "Silver and gold I have not ; but what I have I will give you . In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene , walk ." * Grasping his right hand he lifted him up . Immediately his feet and ankles became strong , * and he sprang up and stood and walked and entered the Temple court with them , walking and leaping and praising God . * All the people saw him walking about and praising God , * and when they recognized that it was he who had sat begging at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple court , they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him . * While he still clung to Peter and John , all the people ran crowding around them in what was called Solomon 's Colonnade , greatly astonished . * Peter , seeing the people , explained , "Fellow Israelites , why do you wonder at this , or why do you gaze so at us , as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk ? * The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob , the God of our fathers , has glorified his servant Jesus whom you delivered up and disowned before Pilate when he had decided to release him . * You disowned the holy and righteous one and begged to have a murderer granted you . * You killed the Author of life , but God raised him from the dead . Of this we are witnesses . * And now by faith in his name this man whom you see and know has been made strong by his name , and the faith that is through him has given this man this perfect soundness before you all . * "Now , brethren , I know that you acted in ignorance , as also your rulers did . * God in this way fulfilled what he had predicted through the mouths of all the prophets that his Christ should suffer . * Therefore , repent and turn about , that your sins may be wiped away and the gracious face of the Lord may bring times of refreshing , * and he may send Jesus Christ , long ago appointed , * but whom heaven must receive until the times of the restoration of all things , of which God spoke through the mouths of his holy prophets of old . * "Moses indeed said , 'The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet from among your brethren , as he raised me ; listen to all that he may say to you . * It shall be that every person who does not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people .' * And all the prophets , Samuel and those who followed him , all who spoke , also foretold these days . * You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God established with your fathers when he said to Abraham , 'In your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed .' * To you first God , when he raised up his servant , sent him , to bless you by turning each one of you from his wicked ways ."

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