Acts 3:1

One day Peter and John were going up together for the hour of prayer, at three in the afternoon,

Montgomery New Testament

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

2when a man lame from his birth was carried along, who was wont to be laid each day near the gate of the Temple called the Beautiful Gate, to ask alms of those who were going into the Temple.

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Cross References

Matthew 17:1Six days later Jesus took with him Peter and Jamesand his brother John, and led them up a high mountain, by themselves apart.

Luke 1:10And the whole multitude of the people were without, praying at the hour of incense.

Luke 23:44It was now about the sixth hour, and a darkness came 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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