使徒行伝 3:1-6 JC

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 3:1-11

We were told in general (Acts 2:43) that many signs and wonders were done by the apostles, which are not written in this book; but here we have one given us for an instance. As they wrought miracles, not upon every body as every body had occasion for them, but as the Holy Spirit gave direction, so as to answer the end of their commission; so all the miracles they did work are not written in this book, but such only are recorded as the Holy Ghost thought fit, to answer the end of this sacred... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 3:1-10

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 day they used to put him at the gate of the Temple which is called the Beautiful Gate, so that he could beg for alms from the people who were going into the Temple. When he saw Peter and John about to go into the Temple he asked to be given alms. Peter fixed his eyes on him with John and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:1

Now Peter and John went up together into the temple ,.... These two disciples were intimate companions, and great lovers of each other; they were often together: they are thought, by some, to have been together in the high priest's palace at the trial of Christ; and they ran together to his sepulchre, John 18:15 and they now went together to the temple, not to attend the daily sacrifice, which was now abolished by the sacrifice of Christ, but to attend to the duty of prayer, which was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:2

And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb ,.... He was born so; his lameness came not through any disease or fall, or any external hurt, but from a defect in nature, in one of his limbs, or more; which made the after miracle the more extraordinary: and he was so lame that he was carried ; he could not walk of himself, or go, being led, but they were obliged to carry him: whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple ; it had been a common usage, it may be, for years past, to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:3

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 Israelites by their going into the temple at that time: asked an alms ; of them; prayed them to give him something for his relief and support. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:4

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 disease: with John ; who was also under a like impulse at the same time; and who was equally concerned in this cure, as appears by the notice the man, when healed, took of the one, as well as the other; and by Peter's declaration, Acts 3:11 as also by the following words: said, look on us ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:5

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 looked wistly at them. This clause is left out in the Ethiopic version. Expecting to receive something of them ; not a cure for his lameness, which he little thought of, but some money, as an alms. read more

John Gill

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 3:1

Peter and John went up together - The words επι το αυτο , which we translate together, and which are the first words in this chapter in the Greek text, we have already seen, Acts 2:47 , are added by several MSS. and versions to the last verse of the preceding chapter. But they do not make so good a sense there as they do here; and should be translated, not together, which really makes no sense here, but at that time; intimating that this transaction occurred nearly about the same time... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 3:2

A - man lame from his mother's womb - The case of this man must have been well known: from the long standing of his infirmity: from his being daily exposed in a place so public. It appears that he had no power to walk, and was what we term a cripple, for he was carried to the gate of the temple, and laid there in order to excite compassion. These circumstances are all marked by St. Luke, the more fully to show the greatness and incontestable nature of the miracle. The gate - which... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 3:1-11

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 3:1-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 3:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Acts 3:2

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