Acts 3

The lame man being healed will be just the beginning of many miracles that the disciples will perform throughout the book of Acts. The miracles were for one purpose - to show the divinity of Jesus Christ and that the Holy Spirit was now present in them. This lame man was known well to all of Jerusalem, he was almost 40, and had sat every day at one of the gates to the temple to beg. Peter said, "In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene - walk!" v6 The people immediately wanted to give praise to the disciples for the miracles. Peter had a chance at that point to give a mini sermon telling them that they missed the Messiah, condemned Him and put Him to death. He then rose from the dead, "and on the basis faith in His name, it is the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all." v16 He reassured them that they could be forgiven. "Therefore repent and return, so that your sins may be wiped away, in order that time of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord". v 19