Knox Bible

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Peter and John were going up to the temple at the ninth hour, which is an hour of prayer,

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when a man was carried by who had been lame from birth. Every day he was put down at what is called the Beautiful Gate of the temple, so that he could beg alms from the temple visitors.

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And he asked Peter and John, as he saw them on their way into the temple, if he might have alms from them.

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Peter fastened his eyes on him, as John did too, and said, Turn towards us;

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and he looked at them attentively, hoping that something would be given him.

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Then Peter said to him, Silver and gold are not mine to give, I give thee what I can. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk.

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So, taking him by his right hand, he lifted him up; and with that, strength came to his feet and ankles;

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he sprang up, and began walking, and went into the temple with them, walking, and leaping, and giving praise to God.

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All the people, as they saw him walking and praising God,

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recognized him for the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and were full of wonder and bewilderment at what had befallen him.

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And he would not let go of Peter and John, so that all the crowd gathered about them in what is called Solomon’s Porch, beside themselves with wonder.

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Peter, when he saw it, addressed himself to the people; Men of Israel, he said, why does this astonish you? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as if we had enabled him to walk through some power or virtue of our own?

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It is the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, who has thus brought honour to his Son Jesus. You gave him up, and disowned him in the presence of Pilate, when Pilate’s voice was for setting him free.

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You disowned the holy, the just, and asked for the pardon of a murderer,

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while you killed the author of life. But God has raised him up again from the dead, and we are here to bear witness of it.

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Here is a man you all know by sight, who has put his faith in that name, and that name has brought him strength; it is the faith which comes through Jesus that has restored him to full health in the sight of you all.

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Come then, brethren, I know that you, like your rulers, acted in ignorance;

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but God has fulfilled in this way what was foretold by all the prophets about the sufferings of his Christ.

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Repent, then, and turn back to him, to have your sins effaced,

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against the day when the Lord sees fit to refresh our hearts. Then he will send out Jesus Christ, who has now been made known to you,

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but must have his dwelling-place in heaven until the time when all is restored anew,✻ the time which God has spoken of by his holy prophets from the beginning.

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Thus, Moses said, The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like myself, from among your own brethren; to him, to every word of his, you must listen.

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It is ordained that everyone who will not listen to the voice of that prophet shall be lost to his people.✻

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And all the prophets who spoke to you, from Samuel onwards, have foretold those days.

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You are the heirs of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, when he said to Abraham, Every race on earth shall receive a blessing through thy posterity.

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It is to you first of all that God has sent his Son, whom he raised up from the dead to bring you a blessing, to turn away every one of you from his sins.