d, 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: and knowing that it
was he who sat for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, they were
filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.

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And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in
the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering. And when Peter
saw it, he answered unto the people, "Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at
this man? or why fasten ye your eyes on us, as though by our own power
or godliness we had made him to walk? The God of Abraham, and of Isaac,
and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Servant Jesus;
whom ye delivered up, and denied before the face of Pilate, when he had
determined to release him. But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and
asked for a murderer to be granted unto you, and killed the Prince of
life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. By faith
in his name hath his name made this man strong, whom ye behold and know:
yea, the faith which is through him hath given him this perfect
soundness in the presence of you all. And now, brethren, I know that in
ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers. But the things which God
foreshowed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should
suffer, he thus fulfilled. Repent ye therefore, and turn again, that
your sins may be blotted out, that so there may come seasons of
refreshing from the presence of the Lord; that he may send the Christ
who hath been appointed for you, even Jesus: whom the heaven must
receive until the times of restoration of all things, whereof God spoke
by the mouth of his holy prophets which have been since the world began.
Moses indeed said, 'A prophet shall the Lord God raise up unto you from
among your brethren, like unto me; to him shall ye hearken in all things
whatsoever {332} he shall speak unto you. And it shall be, that every
soul, which shall not hearken to that prophet, shall be utterly
destroyed from among the people.'

"Yea and all the prophets from Samuel and them that followed after, as
many as have spoken, they also told of these days. Ye are the sons of
the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers,
saying unto Abraham, 'And in thy race shall all the families of the
earth be blessed.' Unto you first, God, having raised up his Se