So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
1. So, the lame man looked. He paid attention to them. He looked and expected some gift from them. He was looking in anticipation of money.
2. Healing was far from his anticipation.
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 3:5. _EXPECTING TO RECEIVE SOMETHING OF THEM._] Because it was a constant custom for all who entered the temple to carry money with them to give to the _treasury_, or to the _poor_, or to _...
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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)...
GAVE HEED. Greek. _epecho._ Here, Acts 19:22.Luke 14:7; Philippians 1:2; Philippians 1:16;...
Acts 3:1-10. HEALING OF THE LAME MAN AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE OF THE TEMPLE...
ἘΠΕΙ͂ΧΕΝ, _gave heed_. The verb requires τὸν νοῦν, or something similar, to be supplied with it. The sense is ‘turned (his attention).’ Cf. Sir 34:2, ὁ ἐπέχων ἐνυπνίοις, ‘he that pays attention to dre...
_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...
ΈΠΕΊΧΕΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΈΧΩ (G1907) удерживать крепко, нацеливаться на кого-л. или что-л., обращать внимание на кого-л. или что-л., с _dat._ ΠΡΟΣΔΟΚΏΝ _praes. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΔΟ...
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 HE GAVE HEED UNTO THEM, EXPECTING TO RECEIVE SOMETHING OF THEM._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
38 Repentance and baptism lead to a probationary pardon, which may be withdrawn.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...
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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...
ὁ δὲ ἐπεῖχεν, _sc._, νοῦν (not τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς); _cf._ Luke 14:7; 1 Timothy 4:16, Sirach 31 (34):2, 2Ma 9:25 (Job 30:26, A.S. 2 _al_.) with dative _rei_; so in Polybius....
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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...
And he (a) gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. (a) Both with heart and eyes....
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And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. (6) Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up an...
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AND HE GAVE HEED UNTO THEM,.... Or "he looked at them", as the Syriac version renders it, as they bid him: he was not only attentive to them in his mind, but he directed his eyes towards them, and loo...
And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. Ver. 5. _Expecting_] God was better to him than his expectation. God presseth kindness upon his suitors, and heapeth it upon them,...
_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...
AND HE GAVE HEED UNTO THEM, EXPECTING TO RECEIVE SOMETHING OF THEM....
The miracle of healing:...
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 he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something from them. 'EXPECTING TO RECEIVE SOMETHING FROM THEM'-i.e. some money. Point to Note: It is often claimed by some modern groups, that one c...
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...
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Acts 3:5 So G1161 gave G1907 them G846 attention G1907 (G5707) expecting G4328 (G5723) receive G2983 ...
‘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...
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GAVE HEED UNTO THEM (επειχεν αυτοις). Imperfect active of επεχω, to hold to. For the idiom with τον νουν understood see Acts 7:14; 1 Timothy 4:16. He held his eyes right on Peter and John with great...
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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...
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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....
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