Chapter 2, verse 17 - Chapter 3, verse 20
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‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.
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Yes, and on my servants and on my handmaidens in those days, I will pour out my Spirit, and they will prophesy.
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I will show wonders in the sky above, and signs on the earth beneath
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The sun will be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes.
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It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
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“Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know,
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him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed
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whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
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For David says concerning him, ‘I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
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Therefore my heart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced. Moreover my flesh also will dwell in hope
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because you will not leave my soul in Hades, neither will you allow your Holy One to see decay.
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You made known to me the ways of life. You will make me full of gladness with your presence.’
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“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
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Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
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he foreseeing this spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was his soul left in Hades, nor did his flesh see decay.
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This Jesus God raised up, to which we all are witnesses.
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Being therefore exalted by the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured out this, which you now see and hear.
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For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand,
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until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’
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“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
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Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
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Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
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For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”
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With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation!”
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Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
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They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
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Fear came on every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles.
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All who believed were together, and had all things in common.
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They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.
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Day by day, continuing steadfastly with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread at home, they took their food with gladness and singleness of heart,
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praising God, and having favor with all the people. The Lord added to the assembly day by day those who were being saved.
Chapter 3
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Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
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A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
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Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.
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Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, “Look at us.”
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He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.
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But Peter said, “Silver and gold have I none, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
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He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.
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Leaping up, he stood, and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God.
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All the people saw him walking and praising God.
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They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
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As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.
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When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
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The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.
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But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
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and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses.
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By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.
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“Now, brothers, I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
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But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
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“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,
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and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before,
