Acts 3:12-26

MLV(i) 12 Now having seen them, Peter answered to the people, Men, Israelites! Why are you marveling over this one? Or why are you staring at us, as though by our own power or godliness we have made him able to walk? 13 The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his young-servant Jesus; whom you indeed gave up and denied him in the face of Pilate, when he had decided to release that man. 14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and killed the Author of life; whom God raised up from the dead; of whom we are witnesses. 16 And upon the faith of his name, this one whom you are viewing and know, his name has strengthened him. And the faith which is through him has given him this wholeness of body in front of all of you. 17 And I know now brethren that you did it according to ignorance, just-like also did your rulers. 18 But what God proclaimed beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets, that the Christ was to suffer, he thus fulfilled. 19 Therefore, repent and turn again, that your sins may be wiped-away, that seasons of refreshment may come from the presence of the Lord; 20 and that he may send Christ Jesus who has been assigned to you; 21 whom it is indeed essential for the heaven to accept till the times of restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of all his holy prophets that have been from of old. 22 Moses indeed said to the fathers, The Lord our God will rise up for you a prophet from among your brethren, like me. You will listen to him according to all things, as many things as he may speak to you. 23 And it will be, that every soul if it does not listen to that prophet, will be utterly destroyed from among the people. 24 But even all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed afterwards, as many as have spoken, also spoke of these days. 25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God covenanted with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed, all the families of the earth will be blessed.’ 26 God, having raised up his young-servant Jesus, sent him to you first, blessing you in turning each of you away from your wickednesses.