Acts 3:2-11 KJV

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

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 3:11-16

3:11-16 As he clung to Peter and John everyone came running to them in the colonnade which is called Solomon's, in a state of complete astonishment. When Peter saw them he said to them, "Men of Israel, why are you surprised at this? Or why do you keep staring at us, as if we had made him walk by our own power or goodness? The God of Abraham and of Isaac and of Jacob, your fathers' God, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and disowned before Pilate, when he had given judgment... 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

John Gill

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 Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:8

And he leaping up ,.... From off the bed or couch, or ground on which he lay: stood and walked ; stood firm and strong upon his feet, and walked about; by which it was abundantly manifest to himself and others, that he had a perfect cure. The Ethiopic version is a very ridiculous one, "and he went with them catching fishes"; as if upon this, before they went into the temple, he and the apostles went a fishing together, which has not the least foundation in the text: and entered with... read more

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

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

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 3:11-16

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

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 3:8

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