Acts 3:15-24

¹⁵The guide to life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead — and of that we are ourselves witnesses.

¹⁶And it is by faith in the name of Jesus, that this man, whom you all see and know, has — by his name — been made strong. Yes, it is the faith inspired by Jesus that has made this complete cure of the man, before the eyes of you all.

¹⁷And yet, my friends, I know that you acted as you did from ignorance, and your rulers also.

¹⁸But it was in this way that God fulfilled all that he had long ago foretold, as to the sufferings of his Christ, by the lips of all the prophets.

¹⁹Therefore, repent and turn so that your sins may be wiped away; so that happier times may come from the Lord himself,

²⁰and so that he may send you, in Jesus, your long-appointed Christ.

²¹But heaven must be his home, until the days of the Universal Restoration, of which God has spoken by the lips of his holy prophets from the very first.

²²Moses himself said — ‘The Lord your God will raise up from amongst yourselves a prophet, as he raised me. To him you will listen whenever he speaks to you.

²³And it will be that should anyone amongst the people not listen to that prophet, he will be utterly destroyed.’

²⁴Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel onwards, and all their successors who had a message to deliver, told of these days.