Acts 3:26

God prepared his Servant and sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your evil ways.”

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Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

In Context

25You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers when he said to Abraham, ‘From your descendants all the families of the earth will be blessed.’

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Cross References

Psalms 67:6The earth has produced its crops; and God, our God, has blessed us.

Isaiah 59:20The Redeemer will come to Zion, to Jacob's descendants who turn from their sins, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 33:8I will wash away all their sins that they committed against me, and I will forgive all their guilt from when they sinned in rebelling against me.

Ezekiel 36:25I will also pour pure water over you, and you will be clean. I will wash you clean from all your uncleanness and from all your idols.

Matthew 10:5Jesus sent out these Twelve, telling them, “Don't go to the foreigners, or to any Samaritan city.

Luke 24:47repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.

Matthew Henry on Acts 3:13-26

Peter's Address after Healing the Cripple. 12 And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go. 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to… Read the whole commentary →

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