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NEW KING JAMES VERSION
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Now Peter and John
went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
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And a certain man
lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of
the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms from those who entered the
temple;
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who, seeing Peter
and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms.
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And fixing his eyes
on him, with John, Peter said, “Look at us.” |
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So he gave them his
attention, expecting to receive something from them.
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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, rise up and walk.”
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And he took him by
the right hand and lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones
received strength.
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So he, leaping up,
stood and walked and entered the temple with them
— walking, leaping, and
praising God.
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And all the people
saw him walking and praising God. |
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Then they knew that
it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they
were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
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Now as the lame man
who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to
them in the porch which is called Solomon’s, greatly amazed.
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So when Peter saw
it, he responded to the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this?
Or why look so intently at us, as though by our own power or godliness we
had made this man walk?
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The God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified His Servant Jesus, whom
you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he was
determined to let Him go.
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But you denied the
Holy One and the Just, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
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and killed the
Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
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And His name,
through faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know.
Yes, the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect soundness
in the presence of you all.
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“Yet now, brethren,
I know that you did it in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
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But those things
which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ would
suffer, He has thus fulfilled.
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Repent therefore and
be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing
may come from the presence of the Lord,
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and that He may send
Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before,
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whom heaven must
receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God has spoken
by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.
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For Moses truly said
to the fathers, ‘The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me
from your brethren. Him you shall hear in all things, whatever He says to
you.
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And it shall be that
every soul who will not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from
among the people.’
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Yes, and all the
prophets, from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have spoken, have
also foretold these days.
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You are sons of the
prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to
Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’
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To you first, God,
having raised up His Servant Jesus, sent Him to bless you, in turning away
every one of you from your iniquities.”
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