Acts 3:1

One day Peter and John were going up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

Text-Critical English NT

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

2And a man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those who were entering the temple courts.

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Cross References

Matthew 17:1After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John the brother of James, and led them up on a high mountain by themselves.

Luke 1:10At the hour of incense a great crowd was assembled outside, praying.

Luke 23:44Now it was about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole 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 →

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