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Acts 3

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1Peter and John went to the Temple one afternoon to take part in the three o’clock prayer service. ✦ 2As they approached the Temple, a man lame from birth was being carried in. Each day he was put beside the Temple gate, the one called the Beautiful Gate, so he could beg from the people going into the Temple. ✦ 3When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for some money. 4Peter and John looked at him intently, and Peter said, “Look at us!” ✦ 5The lame man looked at them eagerly, expecting some money. 6But Peter said, “I don’t have any silver or gold for you. But I’ll give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, get up and walk!” ✦ 7Then Peter took the lame man by the right hand and helped him up. And as he did, the man’s feet and ankles were instantly healed and strengthened. ✦ 8He jumped up, stood on his feet, and began to walk! Then, walking, leaping, and praising God, he went into the Temple with them. ✦ 9All the people saw him walking and heard him praising God. ✦ 10When they realized he was the lame beggar they had seen so often at the Beautiful Gate, they were absolutely astounded! ✦ 11They all rushed out in amazement to Solomon’s Colonnade, where the man was holding tightly to Peter and John. ✦ 12Peter saw his opportunity and addressed the crowd. “People of Israel,” he said, “what is so surprising about this? And why stare at us as though we had made this man walk by our own power or godliness? ✦ 13For it is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—the God of all our ancestors—who has brought glory to his servant Jesus by doing this. This is the same Jesus whom you handed over and rejected before Pilate, despite Pilate’s decision to release him. ✦ 14You rejected this holy, righteous one and instead demanded the release of a murderer. ✦ 15You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. And we are witnesses of this fact! ✦ 16“Through faith in the name of Jesus, this man was healed—and you know how crippled he was before. Faith in Jesus’ name has healed him before your very eyes. ✦ 17“Friends, I realize that what you and your leaders did to Jesus was done in ignorance. ✦ 18But God was fulfilling what all the prophets had foretold about the Messiah—that he must suffer these things. ✦ 19Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away. ✦ 20Then times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord, and he will again send you Jesus, your appointed Messiah. ✦ 21For he must remain in heaven until the time for the final restoration of all things, as God promised long ago through his holy prophets. ✦ 22Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from among your own people. Listen carefully to everything he tells you.’ ✦ 23Then Moses said, ‘Anyone who will not listen to that Prophet will be completely cut off from God’s people.’ ✦ 24“Starting with Samuel, every prophet spoke about what is happening today. ✦ 25You are the children of those prophets, and you are included in the covenant God promised to your ancestors. For God said to Abraham, ‘Through your descendants all the families on earth will be blessed.’ ✦ 26When God raised up his servant, Jesus, he sent him first to you people of Israel, to bless you by turning each of you back from your sinful ways.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Acts 2 ·16Acts 3 ·13Acts 4 ·12Acts 13 ·10John 5 ·8Acts 10 ·8Acts 14 ·6Luke 24 ·6

Christ at the center

Acts is the risen Christ continuing his work by the Spirit through the church, as the apostles preach that there is salvation in no other name under heaven.

How Acts 3 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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  • ★ Start hereAudioThrough the WordThrough the Word · ~10 min/chapter · Free · evangelical

    A clear ~10-minute audio teaching for every one of the Bible's 1,189 chapters — the most systematic free way to study chapter by chapter.

  • DocumentaryDrive Thru History: Acts to RevelationDave Stotts · Free · evangelical

    Follows Paul's missionary journeys and the early church on location across the Mediterranean — free on Tubi, great for families.

Pastoral

  • ★ Start hereSermonMLJ Trust — Martyn Lloyd-Jones sermonsMartyn Lloyd-Jones · Free · reformed

    1,600+ free sermons from "the Doctor," including landmark verse-by-verse series (Romans, John, Ephesians, Acts) — a gold standard of expository preaching.

  • SermonChuck Smith — C2000 SeriesChuck Smith · Free · evangelical

    Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

Commentaries & study tools

  • VideoBibleProject — Acts videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — Acts 3David Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

    Readable, verse-by-verse exposition of the whole chapter.

  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on ActsMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceBlue Letter Bible — Acts 3Blue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Interlinear, lexicon, and study tools across the chapter.

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