Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Acts 3:3
Who, seeing Peter ... - There is no evidence that he was acquainted with them or knew who they were. He asked of them as he was accustomed to do of the multitude that entered the temple.
Who, seeing Peter ... - There is no evidence that he was acquainted with them or knew who they were. He asked of them as he was accustomed to do of the multitude that entered the temple.
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...
ACTS 3:3 labei/n The presence of labei/n (î74 a A B C E G 33 81 614 1739 _al_) seems to overload the expression _(_…hvrw,ta evlehmosu,nhn labei/n) and so was omitted by Western and Byzantine witnesse...
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...
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...
A NOTABLE DEED IS DONE (Acts 3:1-10)...
SEEING. App-133. ASKED. Greek. _erotao._ App-134. AN ALMS. Literally to receive an alms....
_asked an alms Alms_is singular number, and was in early times spelt _almesse_, which is derived from the Greek ἐλεημοσύνη, which in German becomes _Almosen_= a gift of charity....
ΛΑΒΕΙ͂Ν. This infinitive is redundant. A similar pleonasm is found Mark 1:17....
Acts 3:1-10. HEALING OF THE LAME MAN AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE OF THE TEMPLE...
_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...
ΊΔΏΝ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΜΈΛΛΟΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΜΈΛΛΩ (G3195) собираться, с _inf._ ΕΊΣΙΈΝΑΙ _praes. act. inf. от_ Ε'ΊΣΕΙΜΙ (G1524) входить, ΉΡΏΤΑ _impf. ind....
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...
Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. WHO SEEING PETER AND JOHN ABOUT TO GO INTO THE TEMPLE ASKED AN ALMS....
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...
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...
ἠρώτα λαβεῖν : “asked to receive,” R.V., as other English versions except A.V. The expression is quite classical, αἰτῶν λαβεῖν, Aristoph., _Plut._, 240, _cf._ Mark 1:17, and LXX, Exodus 23:15, for sim...
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...
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...
3._He asketh an alms. _We see how God restored this lame man to his limbs contrary to his expectation. Because he thought that his disease was incurable, he was only careful for maintenance. That is g...
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,...
WHO SEEING PETER AND JOHN ABOUT TO GO INTO THE TEMPLE,.... Just as they were entering through the gate at which he lay, he looked at them; and though they were strangers to him, he concluded they were...
Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. Ver. 3. _Asked an alms_] The Dutch beggars ask not, but look pitifully....
_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 HEALING OF THE LAME MAN. The lame beggar:...
WHO, SEEING PETER AND JOHN ABOUT TO GO INTO THE TEMPLE, ASKED AN ALMS. Of the many signs and wonders which the apostles performed for the confirmation of their teaching, chap. 2:43, Luke here narrates...
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...
WHO, SEEING PETER AND JOHN ABOUT TO GO INTO THE TEMPLE, ASKED FOR ALMS. 1. Peter was just another person passing by. Like he did for all who passed by, he asked for alms. 2. How do we respond to the...
who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms....
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...
SEEING, though lame: every one hath something that is truly valuable, and matter of praise and thanks unto God....
Acts 3:3 who G3739 seeing G1492 (G5631) Peter G4074 and G2532 John G2491 about G3195 (G5723) go...
‘Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive alms.' When the man saw Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he called on them to give him alms. Luke is bringing out hi...
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...
Acts 3:3. ASKED AN ALMS. Meyer, quoting from Vajikra Rabbi, f. Acts 20:3-4, gives us some Jewish forms of begging: ‘Merere in me,' ‘In me benefac tibi,' etc....
_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...
ASKED (ηρωτα). Began to ask, inchoative imperfect. It was his chance....
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....
_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...
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...