Now Peter and John went up together into the temple These two disciples were intimate companions, and great lovers of each other; they were often together: they are thought, by some, to have been together in the high priest’s palace at the trial of Christ; and they ran together to his sepulchre,…

And a certain man, lame from his mother’s womb He was born so; his lameness came not through any disease or fall, or any external hurt, but from a defect in nature, in one of his limbs, or more; which made the after miracle the more extraordinary: and he was so lame that he was carried; he could…

Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple Just as they were entering through the gate at which he lay, he looked at them; and though they were strangers to him, he concluded they were Israelites by their going into the temple at that time: asked an alms; of them; prayed them to give him…

And Peter fastening his eyes upon him Or looking very wistly and intently at him, being, no doubt, under some uncommon impulse of the Spirit of God to take notice of him, and cure him of his disease: with John; who was also under a like impulse at the same time; and who was equally concerned in…

And he gave heed unto them Or “he looked at them”, as the Syriac version renders it, as they bid him: he was not only attentive to them in his mind, but he directed his eyes towards them, and looked wistly at them. This clause is left out in the Ethiopic version.

Then Peter said, silver and gold have I none The Ethiopic version reads, “we have none”; and so it reads the next clause in the first person plural; that is, they had no money either of gold or silver coin; they had none about them, nor any of their own perhaps any where; none but what was brought…

And he took him by the right hand In imitation of Christ, whom he had often seen using the same action on such occasions: and lift him up; believing he was cured, and that it might be manifest.

And he leaping up From off the bed or couch, or ground on which he lay: stood and walked; stood firm and strong upon his feet, and walked about; by which it was abundantly manifest to himself and others, that he had a perfect cure.

And all the people That were in the temple, saw him walking; who before lay on a couch, or on the ground, and was so lame, that he was obliged to be carried; and praising God; for this miraculous cure.

And they knew it was he that sat for alms The Syriac version renders it, “they knew him to be that beggar that sat daily and asked alms”. As he was daily brought thither, and had, for many years, it is very likely, sat there to ask alms of the people as they went into the temple; he was well known…

And as the lame man which was healed This is left out in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, and in the Alexandrian copy, which only read, and as he held Peter and John; by their clothes or arms, either through fear, lest his lameness should return on their leaving him; or rather out…

And when Peter saw it That the people ran to them, and looked wistly upon them, and wondered at what was done: he answered unto the people, ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? either at this man, who was cured of his lameness, or at the cure itself: or why look ye so earnestly on us;…

The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob These titles and epithets of God, which are used in the Old Testament, (Ex. 3:6, Ex. 3:15, Ex. 3:16) the apostle chooses to retain, partly to distinguish him from the gods of the Gentiles, and partly to show his regard to the God of Israel, the one,…

But ye denied the Holy One, and the just Who is “holy” both in his divine and human nature, and the fountain of holiness to his people; see and who is “just” or “righteous”, both in his person, and in the discharge of his office, and has wrought a righteousness for his people, which is imputed to…

And killed the Prince of life Or author of life, natural, spiritual, and eternal; who not only is the living God, and has life in himself; and as man, had such a power over his own life, as no man ever had; but he is the author of a spiritual resurrection from the death of sin, to a life of grace,…

And his name, through faith in his name That is, the name of Christ, or the power of Christ, through the faith of the apostles in him, while they made use of his name, and said, “in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth” or Christ, through the faith of the lame man in him; and when his name was used…

And now, brethren He calls them brethren, because they were so according to the flesh; and to testify his cordial love and affection for them. I wot, or “I know”, that through ignorance ye did it; delivered up Jesus into the hands of Pilate; denied him to be the Messiah before him; preferred a…

But those things which God before had showed In the Scriptures of the Old Testament, concerning the betraying of the Messiah, and his sufferings and death, with the various causes, concomitants, and circumstances of them: by the mouths of all his prophets; which were since the world began; some…

Repent ye therefore The Ethiopic version adds, “and be baptized”, (See Gill on Acts 2:38), and be converted. The apostle’s sense is, repent of the sin of crucifying Christ, which is what he had been charging them with, and turn unto him, and acknowledge him as the Messiah; receive his doctrines,…

And he shall send Jesus Christ Or “that he may send Jesus Christ”, as the Syriac and Arabic versions render it: not in person, for this regards neither his first, nor his second coming, both which might be terrible to the awakened Jews; the former, because he had been sent, and was come, and was…

Whom the heaven must receive Hold and retain in his human nature; and which does not at all hinder or confront his mission, and coming to his people, in the mean while, in a spiritual way and manner, to their joy and comfort: or, “who must receive heaven”; the kingdom, and glory, and reign there:…

For Moses truly said unto the fathers The Jewish fathers, the Israelites in the times of Moses. The Ethiopic version reads, “our fathers”. This phrase, “unto the fathers”, is left out in the Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions, and in the Alexandrian copy: the passages referred to are in (Deut.

And it shall come to pass, that every soul Every person, man or woman: which will not hear that prophet; neither believe what he says, nor do what he commands; or as it is in “will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name”: for he that hears not him, hearkens not to God, in whose…

Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel Who was, as the Jews call him, (רבן של נביאים) , “the master of the prophets” [[10]]; and they say, that Samuel the prophet is (הנביא הראשון) , “the first prophet” in the chain of the Kabbala [[11]]; and therefore is here particularly mentioned, as at the head…

Ye are the children of the prophets Of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who are called prophets, being lineally and naturally descended from them; to them belonged the prophecies of the Old Testament concerning the Messiah, and the promises of him; they were heirs of them; and of the covenant which God…

Unto you first, God having raised his Son Jesus Which may be understood, either of the incarnation of Christ, and his exhibition in the flesh; which is sometimes expressed by raising him up, and is no other than the mission, or manifestation of him in human nature, as in .