Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Acts — John Shaqi
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Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Acts
Weymouth, Richard Francis
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003:005 So he looked and waited, expecting to receive something from them.
003:006 "I have no silver or gold," Peter said, "but what I have, I give you.
In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene--walk!"
003:007 Then taking his hand Peter lifted him up, and immediately
his feet and ankles were strengthened.
003:008 Leaping up, he stood upright and began to walk, and went into
the Temple with them, walking, leaping, and praising God.
003:009 All the people saw him walking and praising God;
003:010 and recognizing him as the man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate
of the Temple asking for alms, they were filled with awe
and amazement at what had happened to him.
003:011 While he still clung to Peter and John, the people, awe-struck, ran up
crowding round them in what was known as Solomon's Portico.
003:012 Peter, seeing this, spoke to the people. "Israelites," he said,
"why do you wonder at this man? Or why gaze at us, as though
by any power or piety of our own we had enabled him to walk?
003:013 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers,
has conferred this honour on His Servant Jesus, whom you
delivered up and disowned in the presence of Pilate,
when he had decided to let Him go.
003:014 Yes, you disowned the holy and righteous One, and asked
as a favour the release of a murderer.
003:015 The Prince of Life you put to death; but God has raised Him
from the dead, and we are witnesses as to that.
003:016 It is His name--faith in that name being the condition--
which has strengthened this man whom you behold and know;
and the faith which He has given has made this man sound
and strong again, as you can all see.
003:017 "And now, brethren, I know that it was in ignorance that you
did it, as was the case with your rulers also.
003:018 But in this way God has fulfilled the declarations He made
through all the Prophets, that His Christ would suffer.
003:019 Repent, therefore, and reform your lives, so that the record
of your sins may be cancelled, and that there may come seasons
of revival from the Lord,
003:020 and that He may send the Christ appointed beforehand
for you--even Jesus.
003:021 Heaven must receive Him until those times of which God has spoken
from the earliest ages through the lips of His holy Prophets--
the times of the reconstitution of all things.
003:022 Moses declared, "`The Lord your God will raise up a Prophet
for you from among your brethren as He has raised me.
In all that He says to you, you must listen to Him.
003:023 And every one, without exception, who refuses to listen to that
Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from among the People.'
003:024 Yes, and all the Prophets, from Samuel onwards--all who have spoken--
have also announced the coming of this present time.
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