--- title: "Acts 3 - Study King James Bible with ellicotts commentary for english readers" description: "Read Acts 3 with ellicotts commentary for english readers commentary. 1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was car" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/ellicotts-commentary-for-english-readers/acts/3" --- [ Read](/kjv/acts/3)[ Commentary](/study/acts/3)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/acts/3) Audio 1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, *being* the ninth *hour*. 2 And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; 3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. 4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us. 5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. 6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. 7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted *him* up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. 8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. 9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God: 10 And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him. 11 And as the lame man which was healed held Peter and John, all the people ran together unto them in the porch that is called Solomon’s, greatly wondering. 12 ¶ And when Peter saw *it*, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk? 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let *him* go. 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; 15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses. 16 And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all. 17 And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did *it*, as *did* also your rulers. 18 But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled. 19 ¶ Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; 20 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: 21 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. 22 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. 23 And it shall come to pass, *that* every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. 24 Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. 25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. 26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. [Acts 2](/study/acts/2) [Acts 4](/study/acts/4) ## Commentary To verse 1 **III.** (1) **Now Peter** **and John went up.**—Better, *were going up.* The union of the two brings the narratives of the Gospels into an interesting connection with the Acts. They were probably about the same age (the idea that Peter was some years older than John rests mainly on the pictures which artists have drawn from their imagination, and has no evidence in Scripture), and had been friends from their youth upward. They had been partners as fishermen on the Sea of Galilee ([Luke 5:10](/kjv/luke/5/10)). They had been sharers in looking for the consolation of Israel, and had together received the baptism of John ([John 1:41](/kjv/john/1/41)). John and Andrew had striven which should be the first to tell Peter that they had found the Christ ([John 1:41](/kjv/john/1/41)). The two had been sent together to prepare for the Passover ([Luke 22:8](/kjv/luke/22/8)). John takes Peter into the palace of the high priest ([John 18:16](/kjv/john/18/16)), and though he must have witnessed his denials is not estranged from him. It is to John that Peter turns for comfort after his fall, and with him he comes to the sepulchre on the morning of the Resurrection ([John 20:6](/kjv/john/20/6)). The eager affection which, now more strongly than ever, bound the two together is seen in Peter’s question, “Lord, and what shall this man do?” ([John 21:21](/kjv/john/21/21)); and now they are again sharers in action and in heart, in teaching and in worship. Passing rivalries there may have been, disputes which was the greatest, prayers for places on the right hand and the left ([Matthew 20:20](/kjv/matthew/20/20); [Mark 10:35](/kjv/mark/10/35)); but the idea maintained by Renan (*Vie de Jésus, Introduction*)*,*that St. John wrote his Gospel to exalt himself at the expense of Peter, must take its place among the *delirantium somnia,*the morbid imaginations, of inventive interpretation. They appear in company again in the mission to Samaria ([Acts 8:14](/kjv/acts/8/14)), and in recognising the work that had been done by Paul and Barnabas among the Gentiles ([Galatians 2:9](/kjv/galatians/2/9)). When it was that they parted never to meet again, we have no record. No account is given as to the interval that had passed since the Day of Pentecost. Presumably the brief notice at the end of [Acts 2:0](/kjv/acts/2/0) was meant to summarise a gradual progress, marked by no striking incidents, which may have gone on for several months. The absence of chronological *data* in the Acts, as a book written by one who in the Gospel appears to lay stress on such matters ([Luke 3:1](/kjv/luke/3/1); [Luke 6:2](/kjv/luke/6/2)), is somewhat remarkable. The most natural explanation is that he found the informants who supplied him with his facts somewhat uncertain on these points, and that, as a truthful historian, he would not invent dates. **At the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour**—*sc.*, 3 P.M., the hour of the evening sacrifice (Jos. *Ant.* xiv. 4, § 3). The traditions of later Judaism had fixed the third, the sixth, and the ninth hours of each day as times for private prayer. Daniel’s practice of praying three times a day seems to imply a rule of the same kind, and [Psalms 55:17](/kjv/psalms/55/17) (“evening and morning and at noon will I pray”) carries the practice up to the time of David. “Seven times a day” was, perhaps, the rule of those who aimed at a life of higher devotion ([Psalms 119:164](/kjv/psalms/119/164)). Both practices passed into the usage of the Christian Church certainly as early as the second century, and probably therefore in the first. The *three* hours were observed by many at Alexandria in the time of Clement (*Strom,*vii. p. 722). 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