Acts 3:2
A man who had been lame from birth was being carried there. Every day he was placed beside the Temple gate called “Beautiful” so he could beg from the people going into the Temple.
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In Context
1Peter and John were on their way up to the Temple at the time of the afternoon prayer, around 3 p.m.
3He saw Peter and John as they were about to enter the Temple and asked them for some money.
Cross References
Luke 18:35As Jesus approached Jericho a blind man was sitting beside the road begging.
John 9:8His neighbors and those who had known him as a beggar, asked, “Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?”
Acts 10:4Frightened, Cornelius stared at him and asked, “What do you want, Lord?” “God has paid attention to your prayers, and recognized your generosity to the poor,” he told Cornelius.
Acts 14:8In the town of Lystra there was a disabled man who was lame in both feet. He had been crippled from birth and had never been able to walk.
Matthew Henry on Acts 3:2-12
The Healing of a Cripple. 1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; 3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. 4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. 5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of… Read the whole commentary →