Acts 3:17-23

The Voice

¹⁷ Listen, friends, I know you didn’t fully realize what you were doing when you rejected and betrayed Jesus. I know that you, and your rulers as well, were acting in ignorance. ¹⁸ God was at work in all this, fulfilling what He had predicted through all the prophets—that the Anointed One would suffer. ¹⁹ So now you need to rethink everything and turn to God so your sins will be forgiven and a new day can dawn, days of refreshing times flowing from the Lord. ²⁰ Then God may send Jesus the Anointed, whom God has chosen for you. ²¹ He is in heaven now and must remain there until the day of universal restoration comes—the restoration which in ancient times God announced through the holy prophets. ²² Moses, for example, said, “The Eternal One your God will raise up from among your people a prophet who will be like me. You must listen to Him. ²³ And whoever does not listen to His words will be completely uprooted from among the people.”^[a]