1 Pedro e João subiam juntos ao templo à hora da oração, a nona. 2 E era trazido um varão que desde o ventre de sua mãe era coxo, o qual todos os dias punham à porta do templo chamada Formosa, para pedir esmola aos que entravam. 3 Ele, vendo a Pedro e a João, que iam entrando no templo, pediu que lhe dessem uma esmola. 4 E Pedro, com João, fitando os olhos nele, disse: Olha para nós. 5 E olhou para eles, esperando receber alguma coisa. 6 E disse Pedro: Não tenho prata nem ouro, mas o que tenho, isso te dou. Em nome de Jesus Cristo, o Nazareno, levanta-te e anda. 7 E, tomando-o pela mão direita, o levantou, e logo os seus pés e tornozelos se firmaram. 8 E, saltando ele, pôs-se em pé, e andou, e entrou com eles no templo, andando, e saltando, e louvando a Deus. 9 E todo o povo o viu andar e louvar a Deus; 10 e conheciam-no, pois era ele o que se assentava a pedir esmola à Porta Formosa do templo; e ficaram cheios de pasmo e assombro pelo que lhe acontecera.

11 E, apegando-se ele a Pedro e João, todo o povo correu atônito para junto deles no alpendre chamado de Salomão. 12 E, quando Pedro viu isto, disse ao povo: Varões israelitas, por que vos maravilhais disto? Ou, por que olhais tanto para nós, como se por nossa própria virtude ou santidade fizéssemos andar este homem? 13 O Deus de Abraão, e de Isaque, e de Jacó, o Deus de nossos pais, glorificou a seu Filho Jesus, a quem vós entregastes e perante a face de Pilatos negastes, tendo ele determinado que fosse solto. 14 Mas vós negastes o Santo e o Justo e pedistes que se vos desse um homem homicida. 15 E matastes o Príncipe da vida, ao qual Deus ressuscitou dos mortos, do que nós somos testemunhas. 16 E, pela fé no seu nome, fez o seu nome fortalecer a este que vedes e conheceis; e a fé que é por ele deu a este, na presença de todos vós, esta perfeita saúde. 17 E agora, irmãos, eu sei que o fizestes por ignorância, como também os vossos príncipes. 18 Mas Deus assim cumpriu o que já dantes pela boca de todos os seus profetas havia anunciado: que o Cristo havia de padecer. 19 Arrependei-vos, pois, e convertei-vos, para que sejam apagados os vossos pecados, e venham, assim, os tempos do refrigério pela presença do Senhor. 20 E envie ele a Jesus Cristo, que já dantes vos foi pregado, 21 o qual convém que o céu contenha até aos tempos da restauração de tudo, dos quais Deus falou pela boca de todos os seus santos profetas, desde o princípio. 22 Porque Moisés disse: O Senhor, vosso Deus, levantará dentre vossos irmãos um profeta semelhante a mim; a ele ouvireis em tudo quanto vos disser. 23 E acontecerá que toda alma que não escutar esse profeta será exterminada dentre o povo. 24 E todos os profetas, desde Samuel, todos quantos depois falaram, também anunciaram estes dias. 25 Vós sois os filhos dos profetas e do concerto que Deus fez com nossos pais, dizendo a Abraão: Na tua descendência serão benditas todas as famílias da terra. 26 Ressuscitando Deus a seu Filho Jesus, primeiro o enviou a vós, para que nisso vos abençoasse, e vos desviasse, a cada um, das vossas maldades.

1 Peter and John were going up to the temple for the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon.2 Now a man who had been crippled from birth was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at what was called the Beautiful Gate so that he could beg from those who were going into the temple.3 When he saw that Peter and John were about to go into the temple, he asked them to give him something.4 Peter, along with John, looked him straight in the eye and said, "Look at us!"5 So the man watched them closely, expecting to get something from them.6 However, Peter said, "I don't have any silver or gold, but I'll give you what I do have. In the name of Jesus Christ from Nazareth, walk!"7 Then Peter took hold of his right hand and began to help him up. Immediately his feet and ankles became strong,8 and he sprung to his feet, stood up, and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple, walking, jumping, and praising God.9 When all the people saw him walking and praising God,10 they knew that he was the man who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.11 While he was holding on to Peter and John, all the people came running together to them in what was called Solomon's Colonnade. They were dumbfounded.12 When Peter saw this, he said to the people: "Fellow Israelites, why are you wondering about this, and why are you staring at us as if by our own power or godliness we made him walk?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 betrayed and rejected in the presence of Pilate, even though he had decided to let him go.14 You rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you,15 and you killed the source of life, whom God raised from the dead. We are witnesses to that.16 It is his name, that is, by the faith of his name, that has healed this man whom you see and know. Yes, the faith that comes through him has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you.17 "And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance like your leaders.18 This is how God fulfilled what he had predicted through the voice of all the prophets—that his Christ would suffer.19 Therefore, repent and turn to him to have your sins blotted out,20 so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord and so that he may send you Jesus, the Christ whom he appointed long ago.21 Heaven must receive him until the time of universal restoration that God announced long ago through the voice of his holy prophets.22 In fact, Moses said,‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to everything he tells you.23 Any person who will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’24 "Indeed, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who followed him, also predicted these days.25 You are the descendants of the prophets and the heirs of the covenant that God made with your ancestors when he said to Abraham, ‘Through your descendant all the families of the earth will be blessed.’26 When God raised up his servant, he sent him first to you to bless you by turning every one of you from your evil ways."