Atos 3

1 Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.*3:1 3:00 p.m. 2 A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple. 3 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy. 4 Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, "Look at us." 5 He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them. 6 But Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!" 7 He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength. 8 Leaping up, he stood and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God. 9 All the people saw him walking and praising God. 10 They recognized him, that it was he who used to sit begging for gifts for the needy at the Beautiful Gate of the temple. They were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him. 11 As the lame man who was healed held on to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.

12 When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk? 13 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Servant Jesus, whom you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilate, when he had determined to release him. 14 But you denied the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, 15 and killed the Prince of life, whom God raised from the dead, to which we are witnesses. 16 By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong, whom you see and know. Yes, the faith which is through him has given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

17 "Now, brothers,*3:17 The word for "brothers" here may be also correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings." I know that you did this in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 18 But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

19 "Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord, 20 and that he may send Christ Jesus, who was ordained for you before, 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, which God spoke long ago by the mouth of his holy prophets. 22 For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you. 23 It will be that every soul that will not listen to that prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’✝3:23 Deuteronomy 18:15,18-19 24 Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who followed after, as many as have spoken, also told of these days. 25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring.’*3:25 or, seed✝3:25 Genesis 22:18; 26:4 26 God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your wickedness."

Ka Whakaorangia tētahi Tangata Kopa

1 Nā, e haere tahi atu ana a Pita rāua ko Hoani ki te temepara i te hāora īnoi, i te iwa o ngā hāora. 2 Nā, ka kawea mai tētahi tangata, he kopa nō te kōpū mai anō o tōna whaea, he mea whakatakoto i ngā rā katoa ki te kūwaha o te temepara i huaina nei ko Ātaahua, ki te tono mea māna i te hunga e tomo ana ki te temepara. 3 Nō tōna kitenga i a Pita rāua ko Hoani meāke tomo ki te temepara, ka tono ia i tētahi mea māna. 4 Nā, ka whakamau atu ngā kanohi o Pita rāua ko Hoani ki a ia, ka mea, "Titiro mai ki a māua." 5 Ka whakarongo ia ki a rāua, hua noa e riro mai tētahi mea a rāua māna.

6 Anō rā ko Pita, "Ko te hiriwa me te kōura kāhore i ahau; ko te mea ia kei ahau, māku tēnā e hoatu ki a koe; i runga i te ingoa o Īhu Karaiti o Nahareta, whakatika, haere." 7 Kātahi ia ka hopu i tōna ringa matau ka whakaara ake i a ia. I reira tonu kua whai kaha ōna waewae me ngā pona. 8 Ā, ko tōna mawhititanga ake, ka tū, ka tīmata te haere, tomo tahi ana me rāua ki te temepara, e haere ana, tūpeke ana, e whakamoemiti ana ki te Atua. 9 Ā, i kite te iwi katoa i a ia e haere ana, e whakamoemiti ana ki te Atua. 10 Kātahi rātou ka mōhio ki a ia, ko ia anō tērā i noho rā ki te tatau Ātaahua o te temepara, tono mea ai māna; nā, nui atu tō rātou mīharo me te ihiihi ki taua mea i pā ki a ia.

Te Kupu a Pita i roto i te Temepara

11 I a ia e pupuri ana ki a Pita rāua ko Hoani, ka oma atu te iwi katoa ki a rātou i te whakamahau i huaina nei ko tā Horomona, nui rawa te whakamīharo. 12 Ā, i te kitenga o Pita, ka whai kupu atu ia ki te iwi, "E ngā tāngata o Īharaira, he aha tā koutou e mīharo nei ki tēnei tangata? He aha hoki koutou ka whakamau ai te titiro ki a māua, me te mea he mana nō māua ake he ngākau karakia rānei i meatia ai ia kia haere? 13 Nā te Atua o Āperahama, o Īhaka, o Hākopa, nā te Atua o ō tātou mātua, i whakakorōria tāna Tama a Īhu; ko tā koutou i tuku nā, i whakakāhore nā i te aroaro o Pirato, kua oti rā i a ia kia tukua ia. 14 Otirā, whakakāhoretia ana e koutou te Mea Tapu, te Mea Tika, tonoa ana ko te tangata kōhuru kia hōmai ki a koutou. 15 Patua ana hoki e koutou te Take o te Ora; kua whakaarahia nei ia e te Atua i te hunga mate, ko mātou nei ōna kaiwhakaatu. 16 Ā, nā te whakapono ki tōna ingoa i meinga ai e tōna ingoa tēnei tangata kia kaha, e kite nei, e mātau nei koutou; āe rā, ko te whakapono ki a ia te mea nāna i hoatu tēnei ora nui ki tēnei i te aroaro o koutou katoa.

17 "Nā, e ōku tēina, e mahara ana ahau nā te kūware tēnā mahi a koutou, pērā i tā ō koutou rangatira. 18 Engari, ko ngā mea a te Atua i whakakitea i mua e te māngai o ngā poropiti katoa, mō tāna Karaiti kia whakamamaetia, kua rite ēnei i a ia. 19 Nō reira, rīpenetā, ā, tahuri mai anō koutou, kia murua ai ō koutou hara, kia puta mai ai i te aroaro o te Ariki he wā whakahauora. 20 Ā, kia tonoa mai ai e ia te Karaiti i whakaritea nei mō koutou, arā a Īhu. 21 Kua takoto nei te tikanga kia noho ia ki te rangi ā taea noatia ngā wā o te whakahokinga mai o ngā mea katoa, i kōrero ai te Atua rā te māngai o āna poropiti tapu nō te tīmatanga mai anō o te ao. 22 I mea rā hoki a Mohi, ‘Mā te Ariki, mā te Atua, e whakaara ake he poropiti mō koutou i roto i ō koutou tēina, he pēnei anō me ahau. Ko ia tā koutou e whakarongo ai i ngā mea katoa e mea ai ia ki a koutou. 23 Ā taua wā, ko ngā wairua katoa e kore e whakarongo ki taua poropiti, ka whakamatea rawatia i roto i te iwi.’

24 "Āe rā, ko ngā poropiti katoa o Hamuera iho anō, tae mai ki ō muri nei, ko te hunga katoa i kōrero, i whakaatu anō hoki rātou i ngā rā nei. 25 Ko koutou aua tama a ngā poropiti, a te kawenata hoki i whakatakotoria e te Atua ki ō koutou mātua, i mea rā ia ki a Āperahama, ‘Mā tōu uri ka manaakitia ai ngā hapū katoa o te ao.’ 26 Mō koutou kē hoki i te tuatahi, i tāna whakaaranga ake ai i tāna Tama, i te tononga mai nei a te Atua i a ia ki a koutou hei manaaki i a koutou, hei i whakatahuri i tēnei, i tēnei o koutou i ō koutou kino."