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Men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man of God, who appeared among you by miracles and signs and wonders which God did by him among you, as you yourselves know:

The very one who was chosen for this purpose from the very beginning of knowledge and will of God, you have delivered into the hands of wicked men, and you have crucified and murdered him:

Whom God has raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible for the grave to hold him.

For he was a prophet, and he knew that God had sworn by an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up one to sit on his throne.

This very Jesus, God has raised up, and we are all his witnesses.

It is he who is exalted by the right hand of God, and has received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, and has poured out gifts which you now see and hear.

Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this very Jesus whom you have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

For the promise was made to you and to your children, and for all of those who are far off, even as many as the very God shall call.

Praising God, and finding favor with all the people. And our LORD daily increased the congregation of the church.

And he, leaping up, stood and walked, and 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 of Isaac and of Jacob, the God of our Fathers has glorified his Son Jesus whom you delivered up and denied him in the presence of Pilate when he was determined to let him go.

And killed the Prince of Life, whom God has raised from the dead; all of us are his witnesses.

But those things, which God before had preached by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled.

Whom the heaven must receive until all the things which God has spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets, since the world began should be fulfilled.

You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, By your seed shall all the kindred of the earth be blessed.

Now it was for you first, God appointed and sent his Son to bless you if you turn and repent from your evils.

Then let it be known to you, and to all the people of Israel, By the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, and whom God raised from the dead, behold this man stands before you, healed.

But Simon Peter and John answered and said to them, Whether it be right before God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.

So when they had further threatened them, they let them go; for they found no cause to punish them because of the people: for all men praised God for that which was done.