God

“Men of Isra’el! Listen to this! Yeshua from Natzeret was a man demonstrated to you to have been from God by the powerful works, miracles and signs that God performed through him in your presence. You yourselves know this.

This man was arrested in accordance with God’s predetermined plan and foreknowledge; and, through the agency of persons not bound by the Torah, you nailed him up on a stake and killed him!

“But God has raised him up and freed him from the suffering of death; it was impossible that death could keep its hold on him.

that you will not abandon me to Sh’ol or let your Holy One see decay.

You have made known to me the ways of life; you will fill me with joy by your presence.’

Therefore, since he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn an oath to him that one of his descendants would sit on his throne,

God raised up this Yeshua! And we are all witnesses of it!

“Moreover, he has been exalted to the right hand of God; has received from the Father what he promised, namely, the Ruach HaKodesh; and has poured out this gift, which you are both seeing and hearing.

For David did not ascend into heaven. But he says,

‘Adonai said to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’

Therefore, let the whole house of Isra’el know beyond doubt that God has made him both Lord and Messiah — this Yeshua, whom you executed on a stake!”

For the promise is for you, for your children, and for those far away — as many as Adonai our God may call!”

praising God and having the respect of all the people. And day after day the Lord kept adding to them those who were being saved.

so that he sprang up, stood a moment, and began walking. Then he entered the Temple court with them, walking and leaping and praising God!

Everyone saw him walking and praising God.

The God of Avraham, Yitz’chak and Ya‘akov, the God of our fathers, has glorified his servant Yeshua — the same Yeshua you handed over and disowned before Pilate, even after he had decided to release him.

You killed the author of life! “But God has raised him from the dead! Of this we are witnesses.

But this is how God fulfilled what he had announced in advance, when he spoke through all the prophets, namely, that his Messiah was to die.

He has to remain in heaven until the time comes for restoring everything, as God said long ago, when he spoke through the holy prophets.

For Moshe himself said, ‘Adonai will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You are to listen to everything he tells you.

“You are the sons of the prophets; and you are included in the covenant which God made with our fathers when he said to Avraham, ‘By your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.’

So it is to you first that God has sent his servant whom he has raised up, so that he might bless you by turning each one of you from your evil ways.”

then let it be known to you and to all the people of Isra’el that it is in the name of the Messiah, Yeshua from Natzeret, whom you had executed on a stake as a criminal but whom God has raised from the dead, that this man stands before you perfectly healed.

But Kefa and Yochanan answered, “You must judge whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than God.

They threatened them some more but finally let them go — they couldn’t punish them because of the people, for everyone was praising God over what had happened,