First Reading
Acts 3:11-26
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
11And as he held Peter and John, all the people ran to them to the porch which is called Solomon's, greatly wondering.
12But Peter seeing, made answer to the people: You 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?
13The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his Son Jesus, whom you indeed rescued up and denied before the face of Pilate, when he judged he should be released.
14But you denied the Holy One and the Righteous, and desired a murderer to be granted to you.
15But the author of life you killed, whom God has raised from the dead, of which we are people giving testimony.
16And in the faith of his name, this man, whom you have seen and known, has his name strengthened; and the faith which is by him, has given this perfect soundness before you all.
17And now, brothers and sisters, I know that you did it through ignorance, as did also your rulers.
18But those things which God before had showed by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he has so fulfilled.
19Be penitent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.
20That when the times of refreshment shall come from the presence of the Lord, and he shall send him who has been preached to you, Jesus Christ,
21Whom heaven indeed must receive, until the times of the restitution of all things, which God has said by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the start of the world.
22For Moses said: A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up to you of your brothers and sisters, like to me: him you shall hear according to all things whatever he shall speak to you.
23And it shall be, that every soul which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.
24And all the prophets, from Samuel and afterwards, who have said, have told of these days.
25You are the children of the prophets, and of the testament which God made to our fathers, saying to Abraham: And in your offspring shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
26To you first God, raising up his Son, has sent him to bless you; that every one may convert himself from his evil.