A reading from the Acts of the Apostles
Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit
and told the nation’s leaders and the elders:
“You are questioning us today about a kind deed
in which a crippled man was healed.
But there is something we must tell you
and everyone else in Israel.
This man is standing here completely well
because of the power of Jesus Christ from Nazareth.
“You put Jesus to death on a cross,
but God raised him to life.
He is the stone that you builders thought was worthless,
and now he is the most important stone of all.
Only Jesus has the power to save!
His name is the only one in all the world
that can save anyone.” The word of the Lord.