THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO Acts ~ Chapter 3
One day Simon Peter and John were going up to
the Temple at the hour of prayer, that is, at 3:00 in the afternoon. A man,
lame from birth, who was carried daily to the gate of the Temple called
Beautiful, was there to beg alms from those who were going into the Temple.
When he saw Simon Peter and John about to enter the Temple, he asked for a gift
from them, too. But Simon Peter, as well as John, looked intently at him and
said, “Look at us!” He did so, expecting to get something from them. But Simon
Peter said, “I don’t have any silver or gold, but I’ll give you what I do have!
In the Name of Yeshua Ha’Mashiach of Nazareth, get up and walk!” He took the
man by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankle
bones grew strong. And leaping up, he stood and walked about, and he went into
the Temple with them, walking and leaping and praising Elohei.
When all the people saw him walking and
praising Elohei, hey recognized him as the very man who had been sitting at The
Beautiful gate of the Temple, begging, and they were filled with wonder and
amazement at what had happened to him. While he still clung to Simon Peter and
John, all the people in great astonishment crowded about them in what was known
as Solomon’s Porch.
When Simon Peter saw this, he addressed them.
“Men of Israel”, he said, “why are you surprised at this? And why do you stare
at us as though we had by our own power or piety made him walk? Elohei – the
God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob – has done it. Thereby he has glorified
His Servant Yeshua, Whom you betrayed and disowned before Pilate after he had
made up his mind to set Him free. But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One,
and demanded that a murderer be set free. Then you went and killed the Lord of
Life Whom Elohei had raised up from the dead, a fact that we have witnessed.
This man Whom you see and know was made strong through His Name, through faith
in His Name. Indeed, it is in this faith in Him that has completely restored
this man before all of you.”
“Brothers, I know that you, as well as your
rulers, did it through ignorance. In this way Elohei accomplished what He had
foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, that Ha’Mashiach must suffer. But
you must repent; you must turn to Elohei and have your sins blotted out; then
times of refreshing will come from the presence of Adonai. And He will send
Yeshua Ha’Mashiach, Who before this was preached to you. True, He must remain
in heaven until the time for the restoration of all things, a matter which
Elohei has told us through all His holy prophets from the beginning.”
“Thus Moshe said, ‘Elohei will rise up from
among your brothers a Prophet, just as He appointed me. You must listen to Him
on every matter He speaks to you about. And everyone who will not listen to
that Prophet will be eradicated from among The People (Deuteronomy 18:15). All
the prophets who have spoken since Samuel also have foretold of these times.
You are the heirs of the prophets and of the Covenant that Elohei made with our fathers when He
said to Abraham, “In your seed shall all the races of the earth be blessed”.
Elohei has raised up His servant, Yeshua, and has sent Him to you first, and He
will bless you, each one of you who will turn away from his wicked ways”.
