Acts 3:2-11
3:2 And a man lame
from birth
was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called “the Beautiful Gate” every day
so he could beg for money
from those going into the temple courts.
3:3 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts,
he asked them for money.
3:4 Peter looked directly
at him (as did John) and said, “Look at us!”
3:5 So the lame man
paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.
3:6 But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold,
but what I do have I give you. In the name
of Jesus Christ
the Nazarene, stand up and
walk!”
3:7 Then
Peter
took hold
of him by the right hand and raised him up, and at once the man’s
feet and ankles were made strong.
3:8 He
jumped up,
stood and began walking around, and he entered the temple courts
with them, walking and leaping and praising God.
3:9 All
the people saw him walking and praising God,
3:10 and they recognized him as the man who used to sit and ask for donations
at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with astonishment and amazement
at what had happened to him.
Peter Addresses the Crowd
3:11 While the man was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway called Solomon’s Portico.