Acts 3:13-24

¹³So I will tell you what is really happening. Our ancestors, including Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, worshipped God. And now he has greatly honored Jesus, who always served him. Your leaders brought Jesus to the governor, Pilate, so that his soldiers would kill him. And God considers that in front of Pilate you were the ones who rejected Jesus as your king, after Pilate had decided that he should release Jesus.

¹⁴Although Jesus always did what was right/just and good, you rejected him. Pilate wanted to release him, but you urgently asked Pilate to release ◄a murderer/someone who had killed people►!

¹⁵God considers that you killed Jesus, the one who gives people eternal life. But God has greatly honored him ◄by causing him to become alive again after he died/by raising him from the dead►. Many of us saw him after that, and now we (exc) are telling you about it.

¹⁶It is because we two trusted in what Jesus MTY, PRS could do, that he made this man, whom you see and know, strong again. Yes, it is because we (exc) trusted in Jesus that he has completely healed this man for all of you to see.”

¹⁷“Now, my fellow-countrymen, I know that you and your leaders did that to Jesus because you and they did not know that he was the Messiah.

¹⁸However, your putting him to death was what God had predicted that people would do. Long ago he told all the prophets MTY to write what people would do to the Messiah. They wrote that the Messiah, whom God would send, would suffer and die.

¹⁹So, turn away from your sinful behavior and ask God to help you do what pleases him, in order that he may completely forgive you for your sins.

²⁰If you do that, there will be times when you will know that the Lord God is helping you. And some day he will again send back to earth the Messiah, whom he appointed for you. That person is Jesus.

²¹Jesus must stay in heaven until the time when God will cause all that he has created to become new. Long ago God promised to do that, and he chose holy prophets to tell that to people.

²²For example, the prophet Moses said this about the Messiah: ‘The Lord ◄your God/the God whom you worship► will cause someone to become a prophet to tell you God's message. God will send him as he sent me, and he will be from among your own people. You must listen to everything that this prophet tells you and obey him SYN.

²³Those who do not listen to that prophet and obey him will no longer belong to God's people, and God will get rid of them’.”

²⁴Peter continued, “All the prophets have told about what would happen during the time MTY in which we(inc) are living. Those prophets include Samuel and all the others who later also spoke about these events before they happened.