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Peter and John Heal a Man at the Gate of the House of God. 3 Peter and John were going to the house of God about three o’clock. It was the time for prayer. 2 Each day a certain man was carried to the Beautiful Gate of the house of God. This man had never been able to walk.
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The Holy Spirit Comes On the Followers of Jesus - The...
- Acts 2
The Story of the Man at the Beautiful Gate. Soon after Jesus was taken up into heaven, his disciples began to preach, as he had told them to do. They stood up in the streets, and in the Temple, and spoke to the people all the words that Jesus had given to them.
Peter Heals a Lame Beggar. 3 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer—at three in the afternoon. 2 Now a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those going into the temple courts. 3 When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he ...
Aramaic Bible in Plain English. Behold, men who were keeping an appointment were carrying one man crippled from his mother's womb, bringing and placing him at the gate of The Temple, which is called Shappira, to be asking charity from those entering The Temple.
Acts 3:2. ESV And a man lame from birth was being carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple that is called the Beautiful Gate to ask alms of those entering the temple.
Acts 3:1-11. ¶“ 1 Peter and John were making their way together up into the temple. It was the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2 There was a man who was born lame. He was being carried to the gate of the temple —the gate named “Beautiful”.
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In addition, the man had good reason to believe that begging at the Beautiful gate could support him. There was (and is) a strong tradition of alms-giving (giving to the poor, especially beggars) in Judaism, and doing it as an act of righteousness.
