15. But you killed the very Source (the Author) of life, Whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.
16. And His name, through and by faith in His name, has made this man whom you see and recognize well and strong. [Yes] the faith which is through and by Him [Jesus] has given the man this perfect soundness [of body] before all of you.
17. And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance [not aware of what you were doing], as did your rulers also.
18. Thus has God fulfilled what He foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ (the Messiah) should undergo ill treatment and be afflicted and suffer.
19. So repent (change your mind and purpose); turn around and return [to God], that your sins may be erased (blotted out, wiped clean), that times of refreshing (of recovering from the effects of heat, of reviving with fresh air) may come from the presence of the Lord;
20. And that He may send [to you] the Christ (the Messiah), Who before was designated and appointed for you–even Jesus,