Acts 3:12 Cross References - Living_Oracles

¹² And Peter, seeing this, answered the people, Israelites, why do you wonder at this? or why do you fix your eyes on us, as if by our own power, or piety, we had made this man to walk?

²⁷ John answered, A man can have no power but what he derives from heaven. ²⁸ You yourselves are witness for me, that I said, I am not the Messiah; but am sent before him.

¹⁸ Whosoever teaches what proceeds from himself, seeks to promote his own glory: whosoever seeks to promote the glory of him who sent him, deserves credit, and is a stranger to deceit.

²² Israelites, hear these words: Jesus, the Nazarene, a man recommended to you by God, by powerful operations, and wonders, and signs, which God wrought by him in the midst of you, (as you yourselves also know,)

²⁵ Now, as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and prostrating himself at his feet, made obeisance. ²⁶ But Peter raised him up, saying, Arise; I also am a man.

²⁶ Brethren, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you that fear God; to you is the word of this salvation sent:

¹¹ And the multitude, seeing what Paul had done, lifted up their voices, saying, in the Lycaonian language, The gods are descended to us in the likeness of men. ¹² And Barnabas they called Jupiter, and Paul, Mercury, because he was the chief speaker. ¹³ And the priest of Jupiter, whose image was before the city, brought oxen, with garlands, to the gates; and would, with the multitude, have offered sacrifice to them. ¹⁴ But the Apostles, Barnabas and Paul, hearing of it, rent their mantles, and ran in among the multitude, crying out, ¹⁵ and saying, Men, why do you these things? We are your fellow-mortals, and are declaring the glad tidings to you, that you may turn from these vanities to the living God; who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all living things which are in them:

⁴ who are Israelites; whose are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the rites of service, and the promises;

¹ I say, then, has God cast off his people? By no means. For, even I am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

⁵ not that we are competent by ourselves to reckon anything as from ourselves: but our competency is from God,