Acts 3:1
And Peter and John were going up at the same time into the temple, at the hour of the prayer, the ninth [hour],
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 29:39you prepare the first lamb in the morning, and you prepare the second lamb between the evenings;
1 Kings 18:36And it comes to pass, at the going up of the [evening] present, that Elijah the prophet comes near and says, “YHWH, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known today that You [are] God in Israel, and that I, Your servant, have done the whole of these things by Your word;
Daniel 6:10And Daniel, when he has known that the writing is signed, has gone up to his house, and the window being opened for him, in his upper chamber, toward Jerusalem, three times in a day he is kneeling on his knees, and praying, and confessing before his God, because that he was doing [it] before this.
Matthew 17:1And after six days Jesus takes Peter, and James, and his brother John, and brings them up to a high mountain by themselves,
Luke 1:10and all the multitude of the people were praying outside, at the hour of the incense.
Luke 23:44And it was, as it were, the sixth hour, and darkness came over all the land until the ninth hour,
Matthew Henry on Acts 3:1
In this chapter we have a miracle and a sermon: the miracle wrought to make way for the sermon, to confirm the doctrine that was to be preached, and to make way for it into the minds of the people; and then the sermon to explain the miracle, and to sow the ground which by it was broken up. I. The miracle was the healing of a man that was lame from his birth, with a word speaking ( ver. 1-8 ), and the impression which this made upon the people, ver. 9-11 . II. The scope of the sermon which was preached here upon… Read the whole commentary →