5. And he began to give them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
6. But Peter said, "I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene-walk!"
7. And seizing him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened.
8. With a leap he stood upright and began to walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
9. And all the people saw him walking and praising God;
10. and they were taking note of him as being the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.
11. While he was clinging to Peter and John, all the people ran together to them at the so-called portico of Solomon, full of amazement.
12. But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?
13. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His servant Jesus, the one whom you delivered and disowned in the presence of Pilate, when he had decided to release Him.
14. But you disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
15. but put to death the Prince of life, the one whom God raised from the dead, a fact to which we are witnesses.
16. And on the basis of faith in His name, it is the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all.
17. "And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.
18. But the things which God announced beforehand by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.