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19 Therefore repent and return to have your sins wiped out, 20 so that refreshing times may come from the presence of the Lord and that he may send Jesus, the Christ appointed for you. 21 He must receive heaven[a] until the times when everything will be restored, as God spoke through the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

22 “Moses said to the fathers:[b]

The Lord your[c] God will raise up for you a Prophet from your brothers who is like me. Listen to everything he tells you. 23 And this is what will happen: Every person who does not listen to that Prophet will be completely cut off from the people.[d]

24 “Also, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have talked about these days. 25 You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with our[e] fathers when he said to Abraham:

In your seed[f] all the families of the earth will be blessed.[g]

26 “God raised up his Servant and sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you away from your wicked ways.”

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 3:21 Or Heaven must receive him.
  2. Acts 3:22 Some witnesses to the text omit to the fathers.
  3. Acts 3:22 Some witnesses to the text read our.
  4. Acts 3:23 Deuteronomy 18:15,18,19
  5. Acts 3:25 Some witnesses to the text read your.
  6. Acts 3:25 Or descendant. The literal seed is retained in the translation to help readers trace the line of the promised Savior from Eve through Abraham and David to Jesus, the promised Seed of the Woman.
  7. Acts 3:25 Genesis 12:3; 18:18; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14