Author of Life – Death Could Not Hold Him (Acts 3:12-19) (Acts 3:12-19)

David Banting, 14th April 2024
Part of the Acts of the Apostles: Proclaiming Jesus series, preached at a Fordham Sunday Service service

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3:12 When Peter saw this, he said to them: "Men of Israel, why does this surprise you? Why do you stare at us as if by our own power or godliness we had made this man walk?
3:13 The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Jesus. You handed him over to be killed, and you disowned him before Pilate, though he had decided to let him go.
3:14 You disowned the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a murderer be released to you.
3:15 You killed the author of life, but God raised him from the dead. We are witnesses of this.

3:16 By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know was made strong. It is Jesus' name and the faith that comes through him that has given this complete healing to him, as you can all see.
3:17 "Now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did your leaders.
3:18 But this is how God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Christ would suffer.
3:19 Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord,