Acts 3:1

Peter and John Heal a Lame Man at the Temple

3:1 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time ¹  for prayer, ²  at three o’clock in the afternoon. ³ 

Acts 10:31

10:31 and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your acts of charity ⁴  have been remembered before God. ⁵ 

¹ tn Grk “hour.”

² sn Going up to the temple at the time for prayer. The earliest Christians, being of Jewish roots, were still participating in the institutions of Judaism at this point. Their faith in Christ did not make them non-Jewish in their practices.

³ tn Grk “at the ninth hour.” This is calculated from sunrise (Josephus, Ant. 14.4.3 [14.65]; Dan 9:21).

⁴ tn Or “your gifts to the needy.”

⁵ sn This statement is a paraphrase rather than an exact quotation of Acts 10:4.