Acts 3

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¹Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. ✦ ²A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple. ✦ ³Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy. ⁴Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, “Look at us.” ✦ ⁵He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them. ⁶But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!” ✦ ⁷He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength. ✦ ⁸Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God. ✦ ⁹All the people saw him walking and praising God. ✦ ¹⁰They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. ✦ ¹¹As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering. ✦ ¹²When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? ✦ ¹³The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him. ✦ ¹⁴But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, ✦ ¹⁵and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses. ✦ ¹⁶By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. ✦ ¹⁷“Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers. ✦ ¹⁸But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled. ✦ ¹⁹“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, ✦ ²⁰and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before, ✦ ²¹whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets. ✦ ²²For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you. ✦ ²³It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’ ✦ ²⁴Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, they also told of these days. ✦ ²⁵You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘In your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.’ ✦ ²⁶God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness.” ✦

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Where this chapter connects

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

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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.

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

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1,600+ free sermons from "the Doctor," including landmark verse-by-verse series (Romans, John, Ephesians, Acts) — a gold standard of expository preaching.
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Free verse-by-verse audio through the entire Bible from the founder of Calvary Chapel.

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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
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