KJ3 Literal Translation
Acts 3
1 Peter, preaching to the people that came to see a lame man restored, 19 tells them by repentance and faith to seek remission of their sins.
1And on the same day Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth.
2And a certain man, being lame from his mother’s womb, was being carried, whom they put according to a day at the door of the temple, the one being called Beautiful, to ask merciful gifts from the ones going into the temple;
3who seeing Peter and John being about to go into the temple, asked merciful gifts.
4But Peter, together with John, gazing intently toward him, Peter said, Look toward us!
5And he attended to them, expecting to receive something from them.
6But Peter said, There is no silver and gold to me, but what I have, this I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, rise up and walk about!
7And laying hold of the right hand of him, he raised him up. And immediately his feet and ankle-bones were made firm.
8And leaping up, he stood and walked about, and went with them into the temple, walking about and leaping, and praising God.
9And all the people saw him walking about and praising God.
10And they recognized him, that it was the one who was sitting for merciful gifts at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. And they were filled with amazement and ecstasy at the thing having happened to him.
11And the healed lame one was holding to Peter and John, and all the people ran together to them on the porch called Solomon’s, greatly amazed.
12And seeing this, Peter answered to the people, Men, Israelites, why do you marvel at this one? Or why do you stare at us, as if by our own power or piety we have made him to walk about?
13The “God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob,” “the God of our fathers,” Ex. 3:15 glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you gave over, and denied Him to the face of Pilate, judging to set that One free.
14But you denied the Holy and Just One, and asked for a man, a murderer, to be granted to you.
15And the Author of Life you killed, whom God raised up from the dead, of which we are witnesses.
16And on the faith of His name, this one whom you see and know was made firm by His name, and the faith which came through Him gave to him this complete soundness before you all.
17And now, brothers, I know that you acted according to ignorance, as also did your rulers.
18But what things God before proclaimed through the mouth of all His prophets, that the Christ should suffer, He fulfilled in this way.
19Therefore, repent, and turn back, for the blotting out of your sins, so that times of refreshing may come from the face of the Lord,
20and that He may send forth the One proclaimed to you before, Jesus Christ,
21whom Heaven truly needs to receive until the times of restoration of all things, of which God spoke through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age.
22For Moses indeed said to the fathers, “The Lord your God will raise up to you a Prophet from among your brothers, One like me; you shall hear Him according to all things,” as many as He may speak to you. Deut. 18:15-16
23And it shall be, every soul, whoever should not hear that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.
24And also all the prophets, from Samuel and the ones in order, as many as spoke, also before announced these days.
25You are sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham, “And in your Seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Gen. 22:18
26Having raised up His Servant Jesus, God sent Him first to you, blessing you in turning away each one from your iniquities.
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