Acts 3:1-3

Expanded Bible

Peter Heals a Crippled Man

3 One day Peter and John went to the Temple at ·three o’clock [^Lthe ninth hour; time was reckoned from dawn, traditionally set at 6 AM], ·the time set each day for the afternoon prayer service [^Lthe hour of prayer]. ² There, at the Temple gate called Beautiful Gate [^Cunknown location, perhaps one of several gates between various courtyards], was a man who had been ·crippled [lame] ·all his life [^Lfrom his mother’s womb]. Every day ·he was carried to [people would lay him at] this gate to beg for ·money [alms] from the people going into the Temple [^Cthe Temple complex; 2:46]. ³ The man saw Peter and John going into the Temple [^Ccourts; 2:46] and asked them for ·money [alms; help].