and they were filled with wonder and
amazement at that which had happened to him.
3:11. And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran to them, to the
porch which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
3:12. But Peter seeing, made answer to the people: Ye men of Israel, why
wonder you at this? Or why look you upon us, as if by our strength or
power we had made this man to walk?
3:13. The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the
God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed
delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he
should be released.
3:14. But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer
to be granted unto you.
3:15. But the author of life you killed, whom God hath raised from the
dead: of which we are witnesses.
3:16. And in the faith of his name, this man, whom you have seen and
known, hath his name strengthened. And the faith which is by him hath
given this perfect soundness in the sight of you all.
3:17. And now, brethren, I know that you did it through ignorance: as
did also your rulers.
3:18. But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all
the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.
3:19. Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be
blotted out.
3:20. That when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence of
the Lord, and he shall send him who hath been preached unto you, Jesus
Christ.
3:21. Whom heaven indeed must receive, until the times of the
restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his
holy prophets, from the beginning of the world.
3:22. For Moses said: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto
you of your brethren, like unto me: him you shall hear according to all
things whatsoever he shall speak to you.
3:23. And it shall be, that every soul which will not hear that prophet
shall be destroyed from among the people.
3:24. And all the prophets, from Samuel and afterwards, who have spoken,
have told of these days.
3:25. You are the children of the prophets and of the testament which
God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all
the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
3:26. To you first, God, raising up his Son, hath sent him to bless you:
that every one may convert himself from his wickedness.
Acts Chapter 4
Peter and John are apprehended. Their constancy. The
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