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Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

使徒行传 3:10

他們一認出他就是那平時坐在聖殿美門口討飯的,就因所經歷的事,滿心希奇,驚訝不已。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - John;   Lameness;   Miracles;   Temple;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - Temple;   Worship;   The Topic Concordance - Healing;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Temple;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Healing;   Temple;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Refreshing, Times of;   Touch;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Trance;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Satan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Alms;   Baptism of the Holy Spirit;   Beautiful Gate;   Gates of Jerusalem and the Temple;   John;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jerusalem;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Prayer;   Temple;   Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Amazement;   Door;   Gate;   House;   Jerusalem;   Miracles;   Peter;   Temple (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Trance;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hour;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gate, the Beautiful;   Happen;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
认 得 他 是 那 素 常 坐 在 殿 的 美 门 口 求 周 济 的 , 就 因 他 所 遇 着 的 事 满 心 希 奇 、 惊 讶 。

Contextual Overview

1 One day Peter and John went to the Temple at three o'clock, the time set each day for the afternoon prayer service. 2 There, at the Temple gate called Beautiful Gate, was a man who had been crippled all his life. Every day he was carried to this gate to beg for money from the people going into the Temple. 3 The man saw Peter and John going into the Temple and asked them for money. 4 Peter and John looked straight at him and said, "Look at us!" 5 The man looked at them, thinking they were going to give him some money. 6 But Peter said, "I don't have any silver or gold, but I do have something else I can give you. By the power of Jesus Christ from Nazareth, stand up and walk!" 7 Then Peter took the man's right hand and lifted him up. Immediately the man's feet and ankles became strong. 8 He jumped up, stood on his feet, and began to walk. He went into the Temple with them, walking and jumping and praising God. 9All the people recognized him as the crippled man who always sat by the Beautiful Gate begging for money. Now they saw this same man walking and praising God, and they were amazed. They wondered how this could happen. 11 While the man was holding on to Peter and John, all the people were amazed and ran to them at Solomon's Porch.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they knew: Acts 3:2, Acts 4:14-16, Acts 4:21, Acts 4:22, John 9:3, John 9:18-21

they were: Acts 2:7, Acts 2:12, Luke 4:36, Luke 9:43, John 5:20

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 10:11 - when all 1 Kings 6:3 - General Mark 5:42 - General Mark 7:37 - were John 9:19 - Is this John 12:9 - General Acts 4:16 - a notable Acts 8:13 - and wondered Acts 9:21 - Is not

Cross-References

Genesis 2:25
The man and his wife were naked, but they were not ashamed.
Genesis 3:7
Then, it was as if their eyes were opened. They realized they were naked, so they sewed fig leaves together and made something to cover themselves.
Genesis 3:17
Then God said to the man, "You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. "So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:18
The ground will produce thorns and weeds for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
Exodus 3:6
I am the God of your ancestors—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses covered his face because he was afraid to look at God.
Exodus 32:25
Moses saw that the people were acting wildly. Aaron had let them get out of control and become fools in front of their enemies.
Job 23:15
That is why I am frightened of him; when I think of this, I am afraid of him.
Psalms 119:120
I shake in fear of you; I respect your laws.
Isaiah 33:14
The sinners in Jerusalem are afraid; those who are separated from God shake with fear. They say, "Can any of us live through this fire that destroys? Who can live near this fire that burns on and on?"
Isaiah 47:3
People will see your nakedness; they will see your shame. I will punish you; I will punish every one of you."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 by them, and they had but just now passed him, and observed him in the same condition he had for a long time been, and knew him to be the same. It was a clear and indisputable point with them.

At the beautiful gate of the temple :-.

And they were all filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him; that he should have a cure so suddenly, and in such an extraordinary manner; they wondered at the power of God, which was seen in it, and that he should make use of such mean and contemptible persons as the apostles were.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And all the people ... - The people who had been accustomed to see him sit in a public place.

And they knew ... - In this they could not be deceived; they had seen him a long time, and now they saw the same man expressing his praise to God for complete recovery. The particulars in this miracle are the following, and they are as far as possible from any appearance of imposture:

1. The man had been afficated from a child. This was known to all the people. At this time he was 40 years of age, Acts 4:22.

2. He was not an impostor. If he had pretended lameness, it is wonderful that he had not been detected before, and not have been suffered to occupy a place thus in the temple.

3. The apostles had no agency in placing him there. They had not seen him before. There was manifestly no collusion or agreement with him to attempt to impose on the people.

4. The man himself was convinced of the miracle, and did not doubt that the power by which he had been healed was of God.

5. The people were convinced of the same thing. They saw the effects; they had known him well; they had had every opportunity to know that he was diseased, and they were now satisfied that he was restored. There was no possibility of deception in the case. It was not merely the friends of Jesus that saw this; not those who had an interest in the miracle, but those who had been his enemies, and who had just before been engaged in putting him to death. Let this miracle be compared, in these particulars, with those pretended miracles which have been affirmed to have been performed in defense of other systems of religion, and it will be seen at once that in these there is every appearance of sincerity, honesty, and truth; in them, every mark of deception, fraud, and imposition. (See Paley’s “Evidences of Christianity,” proposition ii. chapter ii.)


 
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