Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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1 One day, as Peter and John were going up into
the Temple Courts for the three o'clock Prayers,
a man,
2 who had been lame from his birth, was
being carried by. This man used to be set down every day at
the gate of the Temple called ‘the Beautiful Gate,’ to beg of
those who went in.
3 Seeing Peter and John on the point of
entering, he asked them to give him something.
4 Peter fixed
his eyes on him, and so did John, and then Peter said: “Look
at us.”
5 The man was all attention, expecting to get something from
them; but Peter added:
6
“I have no gold or silver, but I give you what I have. In
the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth I bid you walk.”
7 Grasping the lame man by the right hand, Peter lifted him up.
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8 Instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong, and, leaping
up, he stood and began to walk about, and then went with them
into the Temple Courts, walking, and leaping, and praising
God.
9 All the people saw him walking about and praising
God;
10 and, when they recognized him as the man who used to
sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, they were
utterly astonished and amazed at what had happened to him.
11 While the man still clung to Peter and John, the people all
quickly gathered round them in the Colonnade named after
Solomon, in the greatest astonishment.
12 On seeing this, Peter
said to the people:
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“Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this?
and why do you stare at us, as though we, by
any power or piety of our own, had enabled this
man to walk?
13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the
God of our ancestors, has done honour to his Servant Jesus—
him whom you gave up and disowned before Pilate, when
he had decided to set him free. note
14 You, I say, disowned the
Holy and Righteous One, and asked for the release of a
murderer! note
15 The very Guide to Life you put to death! But
God raised him from the dead—and of that we are ourselves
witnesses.
16 And it is by faith in the Name of Jesus, that this
man, whom you all see and know, has—by his Name—been
made strong. Yes, it is the faith inspired by Jesus that has
made this complete cure of the man, before the eyes of you
all.
17 And yet, my Brothers, I know that you acted as you did
from ignorance, and your rulers also.
18 But it was in this way
that God fulfilled all that he had long ago foretold, as to the
sufferings of his Christ, by the lips of all the Prophets.
19 Therefore,
repent and turn, that your sins may be wiped away; so
that happier times may come from the Lord himself,
20 and that
he may send you, in Jesus, your long-appointed Christ.
21 But
Heaven must be his home, until the days of the Universal
Restoration, of which God has spoken by the lips of his holy
Prophets from the very first. note
22 Moses himself said—
‘The Lord your God will raise up from among your brothers
a Prophet, as he raised me. To him you will listen whenever
23 he speaks to you And it shall be that should any one
among the people not listen to that Prophet, he will be utterly
destroyed.’ note
24 Yes, and all the Prophets from Samuel onwards, and all their
successors who had a message to deliver, told of these days.
25 You yourselves are the heirs of the Prophets, and heirs, too, of
the Covenant which God made with your ancestors, when he
said to Abraham—
‘In your descendants will all the nations of the earth be
blessed.’ note
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26 For you, first, God raised up his Servant, and sent him to bless
you, by turning each one of you from his wicked ways.”
Twentieth Century [1904], THE TWENTIETH CENTURY NEW TESTAMENT A TRANSLATION INTO MODERN ENGLISH Made from the Original Greek (Westcott & Hort's Text) (The Fleming H. Revell Company, NEW YORK & CHICAGO) [word count] [B14200].
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