Acts 3:12-19

12 When Peter saw this, he said to them: “Fellow Israelites, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?

13 The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go.

14 You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.

15 You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.

16 By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you can all see.

17 “Now, fellow Israelites, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.

18 But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Messiah would suffer.

19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 3:6
• 2. Acts 5:30; Acts 7:32; Acts 22:14
• 3. Acts 2:23
• 4. S Matthew 27:2
• 5. S Luke 23:4
• 6. S Mark 1:24; Acts 4:27
• 7. Acts 7:52
• 8. Mark 15:11; Luke 23:18-25
• 9. S Acts 2:24
• 10. S Luke 24:48
• 11. ver 6
• 12. S Acts 22:5
• 13. Luke 23:34
• 14. Acts 13:27
• 15. S Matthew 1:22
• 16. Acts 2:23
• 17. S Luke 24:27
• 18. Acts 17:2,3; Acts 26:22,23
• 19. Psalms 51:1; Isaiah 43:25; Isaiah 44:22; S Acts 2:38