# Acts 03 📖: A Lame Man Healed [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Acts Overview]] | [[Acts 02]] | [[Acts 04]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📄 Outline]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Peter and John Heal a Lame Man at the Temple **Principle**: Miracles should always point back to Jesus. [[#Verse 01.]] Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time for prayer, at three o’clock in the afternoon.  [[#Verse 02.]] 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.  [[#Verse 03.]] When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, he asked them for money.  [[#Verse 04.]] Peter looked directly at him (as did John) and said, “Look at us!”  [[#Verse 05.]] So the lame man paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.  [[#Verse 06.]] 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!”  [[#Verse 07.]] 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.  [[#Verse 08.]] He jumped up, stood and began walking around, and he entered the temple courts with them, walking and leaping and praising God.  [[#Verse 09.]] All the people saw him walking and praising God,  [[#Verse 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 **Principle**: When preaching - always give them Jesus. [[#Verse 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. [[#Verse 12.]] When Peter saw this, he declared to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us as if we had made this man walk by our own power or piety?  [[#Verse 13.]] The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate after he had decided to release him.  [[#Verse 14.]] But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked that a man who was a murderer be released to you.  [[#Verse 15.]] You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!  [[#Verse 16.]] And on the basis of faith in Jesus’ name, his very name has made this man—whom you see and know—strong. The faith that is through Jesus has given him this complete health in the presence of you all.  [[#Verse 17.]] And now, brothers, I know you acted in ignorance, as your rulers did too.  [[#Verse 18.]] But the things God foretold long ago through all the prophets—that his Christ would suffer—he has fulfilled in this way.  [[#Verse 19.]] Therefore repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out,  [[#Verse 20.]] so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and so that he may send the Messiah appointed for you—that is, Jesus.  [[#Verse 21.]] This one heaven must receive until the time all things are restored, which God declared from times long ago through his holy prophets.  [[#Verse 22.]] Moses said, ‘_**The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers**. **You must obey**_ **_him in everything he tells you_**.  [[#Verse 23.]] **_Every_** **_person_** **_who_** **_does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed_** **_from the people_**.’ [[Deuteronomy 18]] [[#Verse 24.]] And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced these days.  [[#Verse 25.]] You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your ancestors, saying to Abraham, ‘**_And in your descendants_** **_all_** **_the nations_** **_of the earth will be blessed_**.’ [[Genesis 22]] [[#Verse 26.]] God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.” ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Peter and John went to the temple at three o'clock in the afternoon (3:1), one of the regular times of prayer that coincided with the evening sacrifice. 2. The man had been lame from birth and was more than forty years old (3:2; 4:22). 3. The Beautiful Gate (3:2) was likely the Nicanor Gate, famous for its Corinthian bronze, according to Josephus. 4. Begging at a temple gate was common because people coming to worship were often thinking about giving to the poor. 5. The healed man went into the temple walking and leaping (3:8), fulfilling the picture of Isaiah 35:6. 6. Solomon's Portico (3:11) was a covered colonnade along the eastern side of the temple courts. 7. Peter calls Jesus God's "servant" (3:13), echoing Isaiah's Servant who would be highly exalted (Isaiah 52:13). 8. "Author of life" (3:15) can also mean "Founder" or "Pioneer," the same word used of Jesus in Hebrews 2:10 and 12:2. 9. Peter says the people and their rulers acted in ignorance (3:17), echoing Jesus' prayer from the cross (Luke 23:34). 10. Peter quotes God's promise to Abraham (Genesis 22:18) to show that the gospel is for all the families of the earth (3:25). ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the Author of life whom the people killed and God raised from the dead (3:15). He is the prophet like Moses (3:22; Deuteronomy 18:15) and the One through whom all the families of the earth are blessed (3:25-26). ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. Peter said, "I have no silver or gold, but what I do have I give you" (3:6). What do you have in Jesus that you can offer others? 2. Peter made sure the glory went to Jesus and not to himself (3:12-16). How can we point people to Jesus when God uses us? 3. Peter promised that repentance brings times of refreshing from the Lord (3:19-20). What does that refreshing look like? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 6: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, Peter tells the lame man to stand up and walk. - 📖 verse 16: Faith in Jesus' name has made this man strong. - 📖 verse 19: Repent and turn back so that your sins may be wiped out. ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 [[Isaiah 35#Verse 06.|Isaiah 35:6]] - The lame will leap like a deer. - 🔗 [[Isaiah 52#Verse 13.|Isaiah 52:13]] - My Servant will be exalted. - 🔗 [[Deuteronomy 18#Verse 15.|Deuteronomy 18:15]] - God will raise up a prophet like Moses. - 🔗 [[Genesis 22#Verse 18.|Genesis 22:18]] - All nations blessed through Abraham's offspring. - 🔗 [[Hebrews 02#Verse 10.|Hebrews 2:10]] - The pioneer of our salvation. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Acts 03 - SOAP|Give What You Have Received]] ## 📄 Outline (‭‭Acts‬ ‭3‬:‭1‬ ‭NLT‬‬) ”Peter and John went to the Temple one afternoon to take part in the three o’clock prayer service.“ BI- Miracles Are on the Road of Discipline Three points: 1. Don’t follow God alone. 1. Peter and John did it together. 2. Have systems and processes in your life to make it easier. 1. They went at the right time. 3. They experienced a miracle on the road to do what was scheduled. 1. The guy was there all the time. God brought him to their attention when the time was right. ## 📂 Internal Notes %% ### Outline **Big Idea**: **Point 1**: **Point 2**: **Point 3**: %%