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MODERN LITERAL VERSION

3:1 Now Peter and John went up at the same time into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

3:2 And a certain man, being* lame from his mother's womb, was bore there, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask charity of those who went into the temple.

3:3 Seeing that Peter and John were about to go into the temple, he asked them for charity.

3:4 And Peter, with John staring toward him, said, Look toward us.

3:5 And he took-heed of them, expecting to receive something from them.

3:6 But Peter said, I do not possess silver and gold, but what I have, that I am giving to you. In the name of Jesus Christ from Nazareth, arise and walk.

3:7 And he clutched him by the right hand and lifted him up and instantly his feet and his ankles were strengthened.

3:8 And leaping up, he stood and began to walk, and he entered with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God.

3:9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God.

3:10 And they recognized him, that it was he who sat for charity at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with amazement and astonishment at what had befallen him.


3:11 And as the lame man who had been healed was holding-fast to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon's, and were utterly amazed.

3:12 And when Peter saw it, he answered to the people, Men, Israelites! Why are you* marveling at this man? Or why are you* staring at us, as though by our own power or godliness* we had made* him able to walk?

3:13 The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his young-servant Jesus; whom you* indeed gave up and denied him before the face of Pilate, when he had decided to release him.

3:14 But you* denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you*,

3:15 and killed the Author of life; whom God raised up from the dead; of whom we are witnesses.

3:16 And on the faith of his name, this man whom you* are viewing and know, his name has strengthened him. And the faith which is through him has given him this wholeness of body before you* all.

3:17 And I know now brethren that you* did it according to ignorance, as also did your* rulers.

3:18 But what God proclaimed beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.

3:19 Therefore, repent and turn again, *that* your* sins may be wiped-away, that seasons of relaxation may come from the presence of the Lord;

3:20 and that he may send Christ Jesus who was assigned to you*;

3:21 whom it is indeed essential for the heaven to accept till the times of restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of all his holy prophets that have been from of old.

3:22 Moses indeed said to the fathers, The Lord our God will rise* up for you* a prophet from among your* brethren, like me. You* will listen to him in all things, as many things as he may speak to you*.

3:23 And it will be, that every soul if it does not listen to that prophet, will be utterly destroyed from among the people.

3:24 But even all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed afterwards, as many as have spoken, also spoke of these days.

3:25 You* are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant* which God covenanted with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed, all the families of the earth will be blessed.' {Gen. 22:18, 26:4, 28:14}

3:26 God, having raised* up his young-servant Jesus, sent him to you* first, blessing you*, in turning each one of you* away from your* wickednesses.