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 3:3

3:3 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, ⁴  he asked them for money. ⁵ 

Acts 5:20

5:20 “Go and stand in the temple courts ⁶  and proclaim ⁷  to the people all the words of this life.”

Acts 5:42

5:42 And every day both in the temple courts ⁸  and from house to house, they did not stop teaching and proclaiming the good news ⁹  that Jesus was the Christ. ¹⁰ 

Acts 22:17

22:17 When ¹¹  I returned to Jerusalem and was praying in the temple, I fell into a trance ¹² 

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 Grk “the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

⁵ tn Grk “alms.” See the note on the word “money” in the previous verse.

⁷ tn Grk “the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

⁸ tn Or “speak.”

¹⁰ tn Grk “temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper and has been translated accordingly.

¹¹ tn Grk “teaching and evangelizing.” They were still obeying God, not men (see 4:18-20; 5:29).

¹² tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

¹³ tn Grk “It happened to me that.” The introductory phrase ἐγένετο (egeneto, “it happened that”), common in Luke (69 times) and Acts (54 times), is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated.

¹⁴ tn BDAG 309 s.v. ἔκστασις 2 has “γενέσθαι ἐν ἐκστάσει fall into a trance Ac 22:17.”