Acts 3-4

Acts 3

¹And Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, which is the ninth hour;

²and a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they placed every day at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of those who were going into the temple;

³who, seeing Peter and John about to enter into the temple, asked to receive alms.

⁴And Peter, looking stedfastly upon him with John, said, Look on us.

⁵And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something from them.

⁶But Peter said, Silver and gold I have not; but what I have, this give I to thee: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean rise up and walk.

⁷And having taken hold of him by the right hand he raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones were made strong.

⁸And leaping up he stood and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

⁹And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

¹⁰and they recognised him, that it was *he* who sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

¹¹And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the portico which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.

¹²And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, Men of Israel, why are ye astonished at this? or why do ye gaze on us as if we had by our own power or piety made him to walk?

¹³The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom *ye* delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when *he* had judged that he should be let go.

¹⁴But *ye* denied the holy and righteous one, and asked that a man that was a murderer should be granted to you;

¹⁵but the originator of life ye slew, whom God raised from among the dead, whereof *we* are witnesses.

¹⁶And, by faith in his name, his name has made this man strong whom ye behold and know; and the faith which is by him has given him this complete soundness in the presence of you all.

¹⁷And now, brethren, I know that ye did it in ignorance, as also your rulers;

¹⁸but God has thus fulfilled what he had announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer.

¹⁹Repent therefore and be converted, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

²⁰and he may send Jesus Christ, who was foreordained for you,

²¹whom heaven indeed must receive till the times of the restoring of all things, of which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets since time began.

²²Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you out of your brethren like me: him shall ye hear in everything whatsoever he shall say to you.

²³And it shall be that whatsoever soul shall not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.

²⁴And indeed all the prophets from Samuel and those in succession after him, as many as have spoken, have announced also these days.

²⁵*Ye* are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God appointed to our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

²⁶To you first God, having raised up his servant, has sent him, blessing you in turning each one of you from your wickedness.

Acts 4

¹And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,

²being distressed on account of their teaching the people and preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among the dead;

³and they laid hands on them, and put them in ward till the morrow; for it was already evening.

⁴But many of those who had heard the word believed; and the number of the men had become about five thousand.

⁵And it came to pass on the morrow that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together at Jerusalem,

⁶and Annas the high priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the high priestly family;

⁷and having placed them in the midst they inquired, In what power or in what name have *ye* done this?

⁸Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, Rulers of the people and elders of Israel,

⁹if *we* this day are called upon to answer as to the good deed done to the infirm man, how *he* has been healed,

¹⁰be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazaraean, whom *ye* have crucified, whom God has raised from among the dead, by *him* this man stands here before you sound in body.

¹¹*He* is the stone which has been set at nought by you the builders, which is become the corner stone.

¹²And salvation is in none other, for neither is there another name under heaven which is given among men by which we must be saved.

¹³But seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and perceiving that they were unlettered and uninstructed men, they wondered; and they recognised them that they were with Jesus.

¹⁴And beholding the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to reply;

¹⁵but having commanded them to go out of the council they conferred with one another,

¹⁶saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed an evident sign has come to pass through their means is manifest to all that inhabit Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it.

¹⁷But that it be not further spread among the people, let us threaten them severely no longer to speak to any man in this name.

¹⁸And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

¹⁹But Peter and John answering said to them, If it be righteous before God to listen to you rather than to God, judge ye;

²⁰for as for us *we* cannot refrain from speaking of the things which we have seen and heard.

²¹But they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what had taken place;

²²for the man on whom this sign of healing had taken place was above forty years old.

²³And having been let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

²⁴And they, having heard it, lifted up their voice with one accord to God, and said, Lord, *thou* art the God who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that is in them;

²⁵who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have the nations raged haughtily and the peoples meditated vain things?

²⁶The kings of the earth were there, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.

²⁷For in truth against thy holy servant Jesus, whom thou hadst anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the nations, and peoples of Israel, have been gathered together in this city

²⁸to do whatever thy hand and thy counsel had determined before should come to pass.

²⁹And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and give to thy bondmen with all boldness to speak thy word,

³⁰in that thou stretchest out thy hand to heal, and that signs and wonders take place through the name of thy holy servant Jesus.

³¹And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness.

³²And the heart and soul of the multitude of those that had believed were one, and not one said that anything of what he possessed was his own, but all things were common to them;

³³and with great power did the apostles give witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

³⁴For neither was there any one in want among them; for as many as were owners of lands or houses, selling them, brought the price of what was sold

³⁵and laid it at the feet of the apostles; and distribution was made to each according as any one might have need.

³⁶And Joseph, who had been surnamed Barnabas by the apostles (which is, being interpreted, Son of consolation), a Levite, Cyprian by birth,

³⁷being possessed of land, having sold it, brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.