ACTS 3:3-5 The usual text reads, “Seeing (o]j ivdw,n) Peter and John about to go into the temple, he [the lame man] asked…And Peter directed his gaze (avteni,saj) at him, with John, and said, ‘Look a...
Verse Acts 3:4. _LOOK ON US._] He wished to excite and engage his attention that he might see what was done to produce his miraculous cure, and, it is likely, took this occasion to direct his faith t...
FASTENING HIS EYES - The word used here denotes “to look intently, or with fixed attention.” It is one of the special words which Luke uses (Luke 4:20; Luke 22:56; Acts 1:10;...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. The Healing of the lame Man (Acts 3:1)._ 2. Peter's address and appeal (Acts 3:12). The lame man, forty years old, at the gate called Beautiful is the type of the moral condition of t...
EXAMPLE OF THE WORKS OF THE APOSTLES. The cure of lame persons is frequently spoken of in the Synoptic Gospels, as a mark of the Messianic age; but no such cure is there recorded. Paul deals with a si...
A NOTABLE DEED IS DONE (Acts 3:1-10)...
Peter and John used to go up to the Temple at the hour of prayer at three o'clock in the afternoon, and a man who had been lame from the day of his birth was in the habit of being carried there. Every...
AND. But. FASTENING HIS EYES. Greek. _atenizo._ App-133. LOOK. Greek. _blepo._ App-133. ON. Same as "upon"....
Acts 3:1-10. HEALING OF THE LAME MAN AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE OF THE TEMPLE...
ἈΤΕΝΊΣΑΣ ΔΈ. So of St Paul in a similar case (Acts 14:9). And doubtless too here Peter ‘perceived that the man had faith to be healed.’ For his first act after his cure—‘he entered into the temple’—be...
_A LAME MAN NEEDED HELP ACTS 3:1-5:_ Peter and John were together often. Here they go together into the Temple. Their purpose was not to make sacrifice. The Jewish sacrifices were abolished by the sac...
ΆΤΕΝΊΣΑΣ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΆΤΕΝΊΖΩ (G816) глазеть, всматриваться пристально, ΒΛΈΨΟΝ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΒΛΈΠΩ (G991) видеть, смотреть....
AT THE GATE BEAUTIFUL ACTS 3:1-10. Acts 3:1 Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. Acts 3:2 And a certain man that was lame from his mother's...
See notes on verse 1...
And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. AND PETER, FASTENING HIS EYES UPON HIM WITH JOHN, SAID, LOOK ON US - that through the eye faith might be aided in its birth. "On...
38 Repentance and baptism lead to a probationary pardon, which may be withdrawn. This pardon is extended by Christ as the King. Its operation is illustrated by the parable of the ten thousand talent d...
THE LAME MAN HEALED 1-26. Healing of the lame man. Speech of Peter. St. Luke here singles out from the multitude of 'wonders and signs done by the Apostles' (Acts 2:43), the one which led to the firs...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 3 PETER CURES A MAN WHO CANNOT WALK, 3:1-10 V1 One day, Peter and John were going to the *Temple to pray. This was at three o’clock in the afte...
PETER, FASTENING HIS EYES UPON HIM... — See Notes on Luke 4:20; Acts 1:10, where the same characteristic word is used. The gaze was one which read character in the expression of the man’s face, and di...
CHAPTER 8 THE FIRST MIRACLE. Acts 3:1 THE Acts of the Apostles considered as the first history of the Church may be viewed as typical of all ecclesiastical history. It is in this respect a microcosm...
ἀτενίσας, _cf._ Acts 1:10. βλέψον εἰς ἡμᾶς : it has sometimes been thought that the command was given to see whether the man was a worthless beggar or not (Nösgen), or whether he was spiritually dispo...
UPLIFTING POWER Acts 3:1-10 Peter and John differed greatly, in age, in gift, and in point of view. They had been rivals; now they walked together. It was at three in the afternoon that this incident...
The men at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple is the illustration of a constant fact: approximation to God is a habit of humanity in its need. Mendicants are not often found at the doors where an infide...
"What I Do Have I Give You" As Peter and John approached him, the lame man asked them to give him alms. Both apostles looked at him and Peter asked him to look at them. The beggar turned expecting to...
_Look upon us. St. Peter said this to raise his attention and expectation, but the poor man thought of nothing but an alms. (Witham)_...
Mt. Zion, where the Holy Ghost fell on the disciples, is in the southwestern part of the city, which is, throughout, the most densely built I ever saw; the streets eight to sixteen feet wide, and freq...
Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. (4) And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. The poor man had no consciousness of being healed of his l...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
4._Look upon us. _Peter doth not thus speak before he be certain of the purpose and intent of God. And surely in these words he commandeth him to hope for some singular and unwonted benefit; yet here...
In Chapter 3 the Spirit addresses His testimony to the people by the mouth of Peter. God still acted in patience towards His foolish people, and with more than patience. He acts in grace towards them,...
AND PETER FASTENING HIS EYES UPON HIM,.... Or looking very wistly and intently at him, being, no doubt, under some uncommon impulse of the Spirit of God to take notice of him, and cure him of his dise...
And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. Ver. 4. _Look on us_] Together with this word there went forth a power, as Luke 5:17 ....
_Who, seeing Peter and John, asked an alms_ As it seems he did of all who entered in at the gate where he sat begging: an alms was the utmost he expected from them or any others. _And Peter, fastening...
The miracle of healing:...
AND PETER, FASTENING HIS EYES UPON HIM WITH JOHN, SAID, LOOK ON US....
In this great work the apostles were not dealing only with large numbers. As Peter and John went to the temple, not to speak, but at the mid afternoon hour of prayer, they contacted a man lame from hi...
AND FIXING HIS EYES ON HIM, WITH JOHN, PETER SAID, " LOOK AT US. " 1. Peter did not just glance his direction. He looked intently "into" him. 2. See Mark 10:21 - Jesus looked at the rich young ruler...
And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him, with John, said, Look on us. 'FASTENING HIS EYES UPON HIM, WITH JOHN'-Peter and John looked straight at this man. 'Peter looked him straight in the eye, and so...
1-11 The apostles and the first believers attended the temple worship at the hours of prayer. Peter and John seem to have been led by a Divine direction, to work a miracle on a man above forty years...
The eye affects the heart, and speaks the compassion he had of this poor man, whom he did not disdain thoroughly and seriously to behold: he excites the lame man's expectation, and requires his attent...
Acts 3:4 And G1161 eyes G816 (G5660) on G1519 him G846 with G4862 John G2491 Peter G4074 said...
‘And Peter, fastening his eyes on him, with John, said, “Look on us.” And he turned his attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.' Immediately, moved in their hearts, Peter and John...
THE MINISTRY OF THE APOSTLES (3:1-6:7). The pouring out of the Holy Spirit having taken place, and the infant church having been shown to be established, Luke now goes on to deal with the way in which...
_Healing of the Lame Man by Peter and John at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple,_ 1-11. The writer of the ‘Acts,' after describing the inner life of the new society, takes up the thread of the story ag...
Acts 3:4. AND PETER, FASTENING HIS EYES ON HIM WITH JOHN, SAID, LOOK ON US. Calvin, commenting on this miracle about to be worked by Peter and John, asks whether they had the power of working such mir...
FASTENING HIS EYES (ατενισας). First aorist (ingressive) active participle of ατενιζω. For this verb see on Luke 4:20; Acts 1:10. Peter fixed his eyes on the beggar and invited him to look (βλεψον)...
Acts 3 The Lame Man Healed We are reminded by this incident: I. That there are some things more valuable than money. Peter with his gift of healing was of infinitely greater service to this lame ma...
Acts 3:1 Look (1) at the social side, and (2) at the Apostolic side of this incident. I. The social side. (1) We may be able to carry the cripple while we are unable to heal him. Do what you can. (2)...
Acts 3:1. _Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour._ Peter and John seem to have been linked in closest friendship. Peter had been brought back...
CONTENTS: The lame man healed at the temple gate. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Peter, John, lame man, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Pilate, Moses, Samuel. CONCLUSION: The hand of compassion, extended by Spirit-...
Acts 3:1. _Peter and John went into the temple at the hour of prayer._ Some read, At the same time Peter and John went into the temple, intimating that this was the afternoon of the day of pentecost....
_And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us._ THE RECIPROCAL GAZE The gaze was one which read character in the expression of the man’s face, and discerned that he had faith t...
_Now Peter and John._ PETER AND JOHN The union of the two brings the narratives of the Gospels into an interesting connection with the Acts. They were probably about the same age (the idea that Peter...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 3:1. PETER AND JOHN.—The old companionship which had existed between these two disciples before the crucifixion (John 1:20; Matthew 17:1), and was resumed after the resurrectio...
EXPOSITION ACTS 3:1 _Were going up _for _went up together, _A.V. and T.R. PETER AND JOHN. The close friendship of these two apostles is remarkable. The origin of it appears to have been their partner...
Shall we turn to Acts, the third chapter. Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour (Acts 3:1). The day started at six o'clock in the morning, su...
Acts 11:6; Acts 14:10; Acts 14:9; Acts 3:12; John 11:40;...
Fastening his eyes [α τ ε ν ι σ α ς]. See on Luke 4:20; and compare Acts 1:10. Look [β λ ε ψ ο ν]. Attentively. See on Matthew 7:3....
A PITIFUL PAUPER AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE Acts 3:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS It is impossible for us even to suggest the many striking lessons that surround the story of the pitiful pauper at the Beautiful G...