Acts 3:12-19 (NRSV)
Third
Sunday of Easter When Peter saw it, he addressed the people,
"You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us,
as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? 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 rejected in the presence of Pilate,
though he had decided to release him. But you rejected the Holy and Righteous
One and asked to have a murderer given to you, and you killed the Author
of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. And by
faith in his name, his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see
and know; and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect
health in the presence of all of you. And now, friends, I know that
you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. In this way God fulfilled
what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer.
Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out,
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