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Legacy Standard Bible

Acts 3:3

When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking to receive alms.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Beggars;   John;   Lameness;   Miracles;   Temple;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   The Topic Concordance - Healing;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Money;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Healing;   John the apostle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mercy;   Touch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Alms;   John;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Alms, Almsgiving;   Mark, Gospel According to;   Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Peter;   Temple (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 20 To Ask, Request;   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, East;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Begging and Beggars;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When he saw Peter and John about to enter the temple, he asked for money.
King James Version (1611)
Who seeing Peter & Iohn about to go into the Temple, asked an almes.
King James Version
Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.
English Standard Version
Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms.
New American Standard Bible
When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple grounds, he began asking to receive a charitable gift.
New Century Version
The man saw Peter and John going into the Temple and asked them for money.
Amplified Bible
So when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking [them] for coins.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking to receive alms.
Berean Standard Bible
When he saw Peter and John about to enter the temple, he asked them for money.
Contemporary English Version
The man saw Peter and John entering the temple, and he asked them for money.
Complete Jewish Bible
When he saw Kefa and Yochanan about to enter, he asked them for some money.
Darby Translation
who, seeing Peter and John about to enter into the temple, asked to receive alms.
Easy-to-Read Version
That day he saw Peter and John going into the Temple area. He asked them for money.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Who seeing Peter & Iohn, that they would enter into the Temple, desired to receiue an almes.
George Lamsa Translation
And when he saw Simon Peter and John entering the temple, he begged of them to give him alms.
Good News Translation
When he saw Peter and John going in, he begged them to give him something.
Lexham English Bible
When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, he began asking to receive alms.
Literal Translation
who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked alms.
American Standard Version
who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.
Bible in Basic English
He then, seeing Peter and John going into the Temple, made a request to them.
Hebrew Names Version
Seeing Kefa and Yochanan about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.
International Standard Version
When he saw that Peter and John were about to go into the temple, he asked them to give him something.
Etheridge Translation
He, when he saw Shemun and Juhanon entering the temple, prayed of them to give him alms.
Murdock Translation
This man, when he saw Simon and John going into the temple, asked them to give him alms.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When he sawe Peter and Iohn that they woulde go into the temple, he desired to receaue an almes.
English Revised Version
who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.
World English Bible
Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
asked an alms.
Weymouth's New Testament
Seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he asked them for alms.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
This, whanne he say Petre and Joon bigynnynge to entre in to the temple, preyede that he schulde take almes.
Update Bible Version
who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.
Webster's Bible Translation
Who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked an alms.
New English Translation
When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, he asked them for money.
New King James Version
who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms.
New Living Translation
When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for some money.
New Life Bible
He asked Peter and John for money when he saw them going in.
New Revised Standard
When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them for alms.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who, seeing Peter and John about to enter into the temple, was requesting to receive, an alms.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He, when he had seen Peter and John, about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.
Revised Standard Version
Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked for alms.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Which same when he sawe Peter and Iohn that they wolde in to the teple desyred to receave an almes.
Young's Literal Translation
who, having seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, was begging to receive a kindness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Now whan he sawe Peter and Ihon, that they wolde in to the temple, he desyred to receaue an almesse.
Mace New Testament (1729)
he seeing Peter and John going into the temple, asked alms of them.
Simplified Cowboy Version
When Pete and John came by, the fellow asked them for some money.

Contextual Overview

1Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer. 2And a man who had been lame from his mother's womb was being carried, whom they used to set down daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order to beg alms of those who were entering the temple. 3When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking to receive alms. 4But when Peter, along with John, fixed his gaze on him, he said, "Look at us!" 5And he began to give them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. 6But Peter said, "I do not possess silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene—walk!" 7And seizing him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened. 8And leaping up, he stood upright and began to walk; and he entered the temple with them, walking and leaping and praising God. 9And all the people saw him walking and praising God; 10and they were recognizing him, that he was the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Mark 10:46 - begging

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
And the man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave to me from the tree, and I ate."
Genesis 3:13
Then Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said,"I will greatly multiplyYour pain and conception,In pain you will bear children;Your desire will be for your husband,And he will rule over you."
Genesis 3:17
Then to Adam He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it';Cursed is the ground because of you;In pain you will eat of itAll the days of your life.
Genesis 20:6
Then God said to him in the dream, "Indeed, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also held you back from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.
1 Chronicles 16:22
"Do not touch My anointed ones,And against My prophets do no evil."
Job 1:11
But send forth Your hand now and touch all that he has; he will surely curse You to Your face."
Job 2:5
However, send forth Your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh; he will curse You in Your face."
Job 19:21
Pity me, pity me, O you my friends,For the hand of God has smitten me.
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 something for his relief and support.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who, seeing Peter ... - There is no evidence that he was acquainted with them or knew who they were. He asked of them as he was accustomed to do of the multitude that entered the temple.


 
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