1 Pedro e João subiam ao templo para a oração da hora nona.2 Era levado um homem, coxo de nascença, o qual punham cada dia à porta do templo, chamada Formosa, para pedir esmola aos que entravam.3 Este, vendo a Pedro e a João, que iam entrar no templo, implorava-lhes que lhe dessem uma esmola.4 Pedro, fitando os olhos nele, juntamente com João, disse: Olha para nós.5 Ele, esperando receber deles alguma coisa, olhava-os com atenção.6 Mas Pedro disse: Não tenho prata nem ouro, mas o que tenho, isso te dou; em nome de Jesus Cristo o Nazareno, anda.7 Tomando-o pela mão direita, o levantou; logo os seus pés e artelhos se firmaram8 e, dando um salto, pôs-se em pé, e começou a andar; e entrou com eles no templo, andando, saltando e louvando a Deus.9 Todo o povo, vendo-o andar e louvar a Deus,10 e reconhecendo ser este o homem que se assentava a esmolar à Porta Formosa do templo, ficaram cheios de admiração e pasmo, pelo que lhe acontecera.11 Segurando-se ele a Pedro e a João, todo o povo atônito acorreu para eles no pórtico chamado de Salomão.12 Pedro, vendo isto, disse ao povo: Israelitas, por que vos maravilhais deste homem, ou por que fitais os olhos em nós, como se por nosso poder ou piedade o tivéssemos feito andar?13 O Deus de Abraão, de Isaque e de Jacó, o Deus de nossos pais, glorificou a seu Servo Jesus, a quem vós entregastes e negastes perante Pilatos, quando este havia resolvido soltá-lo;14 mas vós negastes o Santo e Justo, e pedistes que se vos desse um homicida,15 e matastes o Autor da vida, a quem Deus ressuscitou dentre os mortos, do que nós somos testemunhas.16 Pela fé em seu nome, fortaleceu o seu nome a este homem, a quem vedes e conheceis; sim, a fé, que vem por meio de Jesus, deu a este saúde perfeita na presença de todos vós.17 Agora, irmãos, eu sei que o fizestes por ignorância, como também as vossas autoridades;18 mas Deus assim cumpriu o que já dantes anunciara por boca de todos os profetas que o seu Cristo havia de padecer.19 Arrependei-vos, pois, e convertei-vos, para serem apagados os vossos pecados, de sorte que da presença do Senhor venham tempos de refrigério,20 e que envie aquele que já vos foi indicado, Jesus o Cristo,21 ao qual é necessário que o céu receba até os tempos da restauração de todas as coisas, de que Deus falou por boca dos seus santos profetas de outrora.22 Moisés, na verdade, disse: O Senhor Deus vos suscitará dentre vossos irmãos um profeta semelhante a mim; a ele ouvireis em tudo quanto vos disser.23 Acontecerá que toda a alma que não ouvir a esse profeta, será exterminada do meio do povo.24 Igualmente todos os profetas desde Samuel e os que sucederam, quantos falaram, anunciaram também estes dias.25 Vós sois os filhos dos profetas e da aliança que Deus estabeleceu com vossos pais, dizendo a Abraão: Na tua descendência serão abençoadas todas as famílias da terra.26 Deus suscitou ao seu Servo, e a vós primeiramente vo-lo enviou para vos abençoar, apartando a cada um de vós das suas iniqüidades.

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."