Verse 2
And a certain man that was lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered the temple.
The cripple in view here had been disabled from birth, being at the time of his healing more than forty years old (Acts 4:22); the fact of his having to be carried showed how complete was his disability.
Beautiful ... There were nine doors to the temple, all being 45 feet high, except the gate of Nicanor which was 75 feet high, facing eastward, and very richly adorned. It is thought by many that this was the door mentioned here. Of it, Josephus says:
It was adorned after a most costly manner, as having much richer and thicker plates of silver and gold ... it was made of Corinthian brass. The gold had been poured upon it by Alexander, the father of Tiberius.[4]
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