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Peter Speaks in Solomon's Portico
While he clung to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the
portico called Solomon's, astounded. And when Peter saw it he addressed the
people, "Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at
us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? The God of
Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, glorified his
servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate,
when he had decided to release him. But you denied the Holy and Righteous
One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and killed the Author of
life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. And his name,
by faith in his name, has made this man strong whom you see and know; and
the faith which is through Jesus has given the man this perfect health in
the presence of you all. "And now, brethren, I know that you acted in
ignorance, as did also your rulers. But what God foretold by the mouth of
all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled. Repent
therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of
refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the
Christ appointed for you, Jesus, whom heaven must receive until the time for
establishing all that God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of
old. Moses said, 'The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet from your
brethren as he raised me up. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells
you. And it shall be that every soul that does not listen to that prophet
shall be destroyed from the people.' And all the prophets who have spoken,
from Samuel and those who came afterwards, also proclaimed these days. You
are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God gave to your
fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your posterity shall all the families of
the earth be blessed.' God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you
first, to bless you in turning every one of you from your wickedness."
Acts 3:11-26
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Appears to His Disciples
As they were saying this, Jesus himself stood among them. But
they were startled and frightened, and supposed that they saw a spirit. And
he said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do questionings rise in your
hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself; handle me, and see;
for a spirit has not flesh and bones as you see that I have." And while they
still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Have you anything
here to eat?" They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate
before them. Then he said to them, "These are my words which I spoke to you,
while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the law of
Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled." Then he opened
their minds to understand the scriptures, and said to them, "Thus it is
written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the
dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his
name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these
things.
Luke 24:36b-48
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