Atos 3

Peter healed a lame man, so the people were amazed.

1 One day Peter and John were going to the Temple courtyard. It was three o’clock in the afternoon, which was the time when people prayed there publicly. 2 There was a man there who had been lame from the time he was born. He was sitting by the gate called Beautiful Gate, at the entrance to the Temple area. People put him there every day, so that he could ask those who were entering or leaving the temple courtyard to give him some money.

3 As Peter and John were about to enter the Temple courtyard, the lame man saw them and asked them several times to give him some money. (OR, The lame man said to them several times, "Please give me some money!") 4 As Peter and John looked directly at him, Peter said to him, "Look at us!" 5 So he looked directly at them, expecting to get some money from them. 6 Then Peter said to him, "I do not have any money [MTY], but what I can do, I will do for you. Jesus Christ, who was from Nazareth town, has authorized [MTY] me to heal you! So get up and walk!" 7 Then Peter grasped the man’s right hand and helped him to stand up. Immediately the man’s feet and ankles became strong. 8 He jumped up and began to walk! Then he entered the Temple area with them, walking and leaping and praising God!

The people were amazed.

9 All the people there saw that man walking and praising God. 10 They recognized that he was the man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate in the Temple courtyard and ask people for money! So all the people there were greatly amazed at what had happened to him.