8. Jumping up, he stood and began walking; and he went with them into the Temple, walking and leaping and praising God!
9. Now all the people saw him walking and praising God.
10. They began to realize he was the one who used to sit begging for tzadakah at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple, and they were filled with wonder and astonishment over what had happened to him.
11. While he was clinging to Peter and John, all the people together came running toward them in the place called Solomon’s Portico.
12. But when Peter saw, he responded to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us—as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?
13. The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified His Servant Yeshua—the One you handed over and disowned before Pilate, though he had decided to release Him.
14. But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked for a murderer to be granted to you.
15. You killed the Author of life—the One God raised from the dead! We are witnesses of it.
16. Now through faith in the name of Yeshua, His name has strengthened this man whom you see and know. Indeed, the faith through Yeshua has given this man perfect health in front of you all.
17. “Now brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your leaders did.
18. But what God foretold through the mouth of all His prophets—that His Messiah was to suffer—so He has fulfilled.
19. Repent, therefore, and return—so your sins might be blotted out,
20. so times of relief might come from the presence of Adonai and He might send Yeshua, the Messiah appointed for you.