John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:7
And he took him by the right hand ,.... In imitation of Christ, whom he had often seen using the same action on such occasions: and lift him up ; believing he was cured, and that it might be manifest. The word him is expressed in the Alexandrian copy, and in some others, and in the Oriental versions, which is a supplement in our translation: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength ; where, it seems, his lameness lay. The Vulgate Latin renders it, his bases and... read more
John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:6
Then Peter said, silver and gold have I none ,.... The Ethiopic version reads, "we have none"; and so it reads the next clause in the first person plural; that is, they had no money either of gold or silver coin; they had none about them, nor any of their own perhaps any where; none but what was brought to them, and put into their hands as a common stock for the whole church, or the poor of it: nor indeed might any money be carried in a purse into the temple; See Gill on Matthew 10:9 , ... read more