Acts 3:8-15

⁸He jumped up and started to walk around. He went with Peter and John into the yard of God’s ceremony house. That man was walking and jumping around and telling everyone that God is really great and really good.

⁹All the people that were there saw him walking and they heard him telling them that God is really great.

¹⁰They knew he was the man that used to sit near the Beautiful Gate and ask them for money, and they were really surprised. They thought, “How did this happen to him?”

¹¹The man didn’t want to let Peter and John go away. They were at a place in God’s house called Solomon’s shade area. All the people were really surprised, and they ran to that place.

¹²Peter saw them and said to them, “Hey, all you Israel people, why are you surprised like this? Why are you looking at us? Do you think that we are really powerful and we made this man walk? Do you think that we are so good that we can do that? No. We are not.

¹³God made this man better, so that everyone will know Jesus is really great. But you mob grabbed Jesus and gave him to the soldiers, for them to kill him. The judge, called Pilate, he wanted to let him go free, but all you mob kept shouting, ‘No, don’t let Jesus go. You have to kill him. You have to let another man go free instead, even though he is a murderer.’ Jesus was a properly good man that lived God’s way, but you said he wasn’t. But Jesus was God’s special workman, and God made him come alive again and God made him really powerful. This is the same God that our grand-fathers of a long time ago respected. They were called Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob.

¹⁵So you killed Jesus, the one that gives life to people. But God made him alive again. Yes, both of us saw him alive again with our own eyes.