Acts 3:4-15

⁴As Peter and John looked directly at him, Peter said to him, “Look at us!”

⁵So he looked directly at them, expecting to get some money from them.

⁶Then Peter said to him, “I do not have any money MTY, but what I can do, I will do for you. Jesus Christ, who was from Nazareth town, has authorized MTY me to heal you! So get up and walk!”

⁷Then Peter grasped the man's right hand and helped him to stand up. Immediately the man's feet and ankles became strong.

⁸He jumped up and began to walk! Then he entered the Temple area with them, walking and leaping and praising God!

⁹All the people there saw that man walking and praising God.

¹⁰They recognized that he was the man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate in the Temple courtyard and ask people for money! So all the people there were greatly amazed at what had happened to him.

¹¹As the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were so surprised that they did not know what to think So they ran to the two apostles at the place in the Temple courtyard that is called {that people call} Solomon's Porch.

¹²When Peter saw that, he said to the crowd, “Fellow Israelites, ◄you should not be surprised about what has happened to this man!/why are you so surprised about what has happened to this man?► RHQ And you should not stare at us, either! You seem to RHQ think that the two of us enabled this man to walk because we (exc) ourselves are powerful or because we please God very much!

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.