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Acts 3:10-17 Modern English Version (MEV)

10. They knew that it was he who sat for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. And they were filled with wonder and amazement at what happened to him.

11. As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the entrance that is called Solomon’s Porch, greatly amazed.

12. When Peter saw it, he answered the people: “Men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Or why do you stare at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?

13. The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Son ­Jesus, whom you handed over and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.

14. You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

15. and you killed the Creator of Life, whom God has raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses.

16. And His name, by faith in His name, has made this man strong, whom you see and know. And faith which comes through Him has given him perfect health in your presence.

17. “Now brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.

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