Quotes From The Gospel Of Jesus

Peter then immediately changes the focus of his speech from the disciples and starts to proclaim Jesus. He attempts to make his listeners understand what in the past they may have not; he reminds them of how through his signs and wonders Jesus was attested to by God. Then he went on to confront them on the fact that they had been blind to this and put him to death by crucifying him, but that death could not keep him down because God raised him from the dead (v22-24). The apostle then again quotes from Scripture and reminds his audience what David had prophesied that the holy one would not be abandoned to the realm of the dead and therefore would experience no decay (v27-31). Since David had not risen from the dead himself it …show more content…
He reminds them how the all the prophets beginning with Samuel had predicted Jesus and the events surrounding him, indeed he said, even since the time of Abraham God had planned for this to happen when he told Abraham that all people on earth will be blessed by one of his offsprings (Gen22:18; 26:4). He also quotes from the Book of Deuteronomy where Moses says:
The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you must listen to everything he tells you. Anyone who does not listen to him will be completely cut off from their people (Deut. 18:15, 18).

As Peter does in every one of his speeches here he also takes the opportunity to invite his listeners to repent and turn to God for the forgiveness of their sins (3:19). We must remember that is how Jesus started his ministry on earth, by asking people to repent and believe the Good News (Mk 1:15). While this speech is shorter than the first one it has many similarities. Peter’s main goal in both of the speeches is to convince his audience that Jesus is the Messiah and therefore to repent and believe in