Acts 3:1

And Peter and John went up into the temple, at the ninth hour of praying, [or at the ninth hour of prayer], (or at three o’clock in the afternoon).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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, that was lame from the womb of his mother, was borne (there), and was laid [or was put] each day at the gate of the temple, that is said ‘Fair’ (or that is called ‘Beautiful’), to ask (for) alms of men that entered into the temple.

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Cross References

Exodus 29:39one lamb in the morrowtide, and the tother in the eventide;

1 Kings 18:36And when the time was then, that the burnt sacrifice should be offered, Elijah the prophet nighed, and said, Lord God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, show thou today that thou art God of Israel, and that I am thy servant, and have done all these words by thy commandment. (And when it was the time, that the burnt sacrifice should be offered, Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Israel, or Jacob, show thou today that thou art the God of Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things by thy commandment.)

Daniel 6:10And when Daniel had found (out) this thing, that is, (that) the law (was) ordained, he entered into his house; and the while the windows were open in his solar against Jerusalem, in three times in the day he bowed his knees, and worshipped, and acknowledged before his God, as he was wont to do before. (And when Daniel had learned about this, that is, that the law was ordained, he entered into his house; and at the windows in his solarium that were open toward Jerusalem, three times a day he bowed his knees, and worshipped, and acknowledged his God, as he was wont to do before the decree had been issued.)

Matthew 17:1And after six days Jesus took Peter, and James, and John, his brother, and led them aside into an high hill, (or and led only them up onto a high hill, or a mountain),

Luke 1:10And all the multitude of the people was withoutforth, and prayed in the hour of incensing. (And a great multitude of people were outside, and prayed during the hour of incense.)

Luke 23:44And it was almost the sixth hour, and darknesses were made on all the earth, into the ninth hour [or till the ninth hour]. (And it was almost noon, and then darkness came upon all the land, until three o’clock.)

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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