Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

¹⁷ `My brothers, I know that you and your rulers killed Jesus because you did not understand what you were doing.

¹⁸ But in this way God did what he had told us would happen. Through all the prophets he had told us that Christ would suffer.

¹⁹ `Stop doing wrong things. Turn to God again. Then the wrong things you have done will be wiped away altogether. The Lord will give you a new start and make you very glad.

²⁰ He will send you Jesus. He was the one God chose to be the Christ.

²¹ But he must wait in heaven until the time when all things will be made new again as they were at first. By his holy prophets God spoke of all this from the beginning.

²² Moses himself said, "The Lord God will raise up for you a Prophet like me. He will be one of your brothers. You must listen to everything that the Prophet says to you.

²³ And everyone who does not obey that Prophet will be cut off from his people altogether."

²⁴ `Prophets spoke at the time of Samuel, and prophets spoke after that time. They all have told about these days also.

²⁵ You are the people who have received what the prophets promised. And you have received the agreement which God made with your fathers. He said to Abraham, "Through your children all the nations of the earth will receive blessing."

²⁶ God raised up and sent his Son to you first to bless you. He blesses you when each one of you stops doing wrong things.'

4 Peter and John were talking to the people. The priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came to them.

² They were angry at Peter and John because they taught the people. They were angry because they told them that Jesus was brought back from death.

³ They caught them and put them in prison until the next day, because it was already evening.

⁴ But many of the people who heard them speak the word of God, believed what they said. The number of men who believed was about five thousand.