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Acts 3
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1 Now Peter and John went up into the temple at the ninth hour of prayer. CCC
2 And a certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was carried: whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them that went into the temple.
3 He, when he had seen Peter and John, about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.
4 But Peter with John, fastening his eyes upon him, said: Look upon us.
5 But he looked earnestly upon them, hoping that he should receive something of them.
6 But Peter said: Silver and gold I have none; but what I have, I give thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, arise and walk. Fathers
7 And taking him by the right hand, he lifted him up: and forthwith his feet and soles received strength.
8 And he leaping up, stood and walked and went in with them into the temple, walking and leaping and praising God.
9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God. CCC
10 And they knew him, that it was he who sat begging alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened to him.
11 And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran to them, to the porch which is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering.
12 But Peter seeing, made answer to the people: Ye men of Israel, why wonder you at this? Or why look you upon us, as if by our strength or power we had made this man to walk? Fathers
13 The God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed delivered up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he should be released. CCC
14 But you denied the Holy One and the Just: and desired a murderer to be granted unto you. CCC
15 But the author of life you killed, whom God hath raised from the dead: of which we are witnesses. CCC
16 And in the faith of his name, this man, whom you have seen and known, hath his name strengthened. And the faith which is by him hath given this perfect soundness in the sight of you all. CCC
17 And now, brethren, I know that you did it through ignorance: as did also your rulers. CCC
18 But those things which God before had shewed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. CCC
19 Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out. CCC
20 That when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence of the Lord, and he shall send him who hath been preached unto you, Jesus Christ. CCC
21 Whom heaven indeed must receive, until the times of the restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the beginning of the world. CCC
22 For Moses said: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me: him you shall hear according to all things whatsoever he shall speak to you.
23 And it shall be, that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.
24 And all the prophets, from Samuel and afterwards, who have spoken, have told of these days.
25 You are the children of the prophets and of the testament which God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26 To you first, God, raising up his Son, hath sent him to bless you: that every one may convert himself from his wickedness.
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- CCC 584 “Jesus went up to the Temple as the privileged place of encounter with God. For him, the Temple was the dwelling of…”
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“And immediately his legs and his feet received strength; and he walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 2640 “St. Luke in his gospel often expresses wonder and praise at the marvels of Christ and in his Acts of the Apostles…”
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“Unto you first, God, having raised up His Son, sent Him blessing you, that each may turn himself from his iniquities.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book III, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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- CCC 438 “Jesus' messianic consecration reveals his divine mission, "for the name 'Christ' implies 'he who anointed', 'he who was anointed' and 'the very…”
- CCC 597 “The historical complexity of Jesus' trial is apparent in the Gospel accounts. the personal sin of the participants (Judas, the Sanhedrin, Pilate)…”
- CCC 601 “The Scriptures had foretold this divine plan of salvation through the putting to death of "the righteous one, my Servant" as a…”
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- CCC 612 “The cup of the New Covenant, which Jesus anticipated when he offered himself at the Last Supper, is afterwards accepted by him…”
- CCC 626 “Since the "Author of life" who was killed 467 is the same "living one [who has] risen", The divine person of the…”
- CCC 632 “The frequent New Testament affirmations that Jesus was "raised from the dead" presuppose that the crucified one sojourned in the realm of…”
- CCC 635 “Christ went down into the depths of death so that "the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and…”
- CCC 2666 “But the one name that contains everything is the one that the Son of God received in his incarnation: JESUS. the divine…”
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- CCC 2666 “But the one name that contains everything is the one that the Son of God received in his incarnation: JESUS. the divine…”
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- CCC 597 “The historical complexity of Jesus' trial is apparent in the Gospel accounts. the personal sin of the participants (Judas, the Sanhedrin, Pilate)…”
- CCC 600 “To God, all moments of time are present in their immediacy. When therefore he establishes his eternal plan of "predestination", he includes…”
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- CCC 674 “The glorious Messiah's coming is suspended at every moment of history until his recognition by "all Israel", for "a hardening has come…”
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- CCC 674 “The glorious Messiah's coming is suspended at every moment of history until his recognition by "all Israel", for "a hardening has come…”
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