11. As he clung to Peter and John, all the people hurried in amazement toward them in the portico called “Solomon’s Portico.”
12. When Peter saw this, he addressed the people, “You Israelites, why are you amazed at this, and why do you look so intently at us as if we had made him walk by our own power or piety?
13. The God of Abraham, [the God] of Isaac, and [the God] of Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his servant Jesus whom you handed over and denied in Pilate’s presence, when he had decided to release him.
14. You denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
15. The author of life you put to death, but God raised him from the dead; of this we are witnesses.
16. And by faith in his name, this man, whom you see and know, his name has made strong, and the faith that comes through it has given him this perfect health, in the presence of all of you.
17. Now I know, brothers, that you acted out of ignorance, just as your leaders did;
18. but God has thus brought to fulfillment what he had announced beforehand through the mouth of all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer.
19. Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be wiped away,
20. and that the Lord may grant you times of refreshment and send you the Messiah already appointed for you, Jesus,
21. whom heaven must receive until the times of universal restoration of which God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets from of old.