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You men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know;

him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, you by the hand of lawless men crucified and slew:

whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be held of it.

Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins he would set [one] on his throne;

This Jesus God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.

Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, he has poured forth this, which you both see and hear.

Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.

For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are far off, [even] as many as the Lord our God shall call to him.

praising God, and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to them day by day those that were saved.

And leaping up, he stood, and began to walk; and he entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

And all the people saw him walking and praising God:

The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus; whom you delivered up, and denied before the face of Pilate, when he had determined to release him.

and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

But the things which God foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.

whom the heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, whereof God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets that have been from of old.

Moses indeed said, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you from among your brothers, like me. To him you shall listen in all things whatever he shall speak to you.

You are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

To you first, God having raised up his Son, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from your iniquities.

be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, [even] in him does this man stand here before you whole.

But Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you judge: