8. He leaped up, stood, and walked around, and went into the temple with them, walking and jumping and praising God.
9. When all the people saw him walking and praising God,
10. they recognized him as the one who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with amazement and astonishment at what had happened to him.
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.