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Wesley's New Testament

Acts 3:5

And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something of them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Healing;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Touch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baptism of the Holy Spirit;   Future Hope;   John;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mark, Gospel According to;   Thessalonians, Second Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Peter;   Ship ;   Temple (2);   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 - Expect;   Gate, East;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So he turned to them, expecting to get something from them.
King James Version (1611)
And he gaue heede vnto them, expecting to receiue something of them.
King James Version
And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
English Standard Version
And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.
New American Standard Bible
And he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
New Century Version
The man looked at them, thinking they were going to give him some money.
Amplified Bible
And the man began to pay attention to them, eagerly expecting to receive something from them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And he began to give them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
Legacy Standard Bible
And he began to give them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
Berean Standard Bible
So the man gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
Contemporary English Version
The man stared at them and thought he was going to get something.
Complete Jewish Bible
The crippled man fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.
Darby Translation
And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something from them.
Easy-to-Read Version
He looked at them; he thought they would give him some money.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And hee gaue heede vnto them, trusting to receiue some thing of them.
George Lamsa Translation
And he looked at them, expecting to receive something from them.
Good News Translation
So he looked at them, expecting to get something from them.
Lexham English Bible
So he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.
Literal Translation
And he paid heed to them, expecting to receive something from them.
American Standard Version
And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something from them.
Bible in Basic English
And he gave attention to them, hoping to get something from them.
Hebrew Names Version
He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.
International Standard Version
So the manhe">[fn] watched them closely, expecting to get something from them.
Etheridge Translation
But he regarded them, expecting to receive from them somewhat.
Murdock Translation
And he looked on them, expecting to receive something from them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he gaue heede vnto the, trustyng to receaue somethyng of them.
English Revised Version
And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something from them.
World English Bible
He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them.
Weymouth's New Testament
So he looked and waited, expecting to receive something from them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he biheelde in to hem, and hopide, that he schulde take sumwhat of hem.
Update Bible Version
And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something from them.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something from them.
New English Translation
So the lame man paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them.
New King James Version
So he gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
New Living Translation
The lame man looked at them eagerly, expecting some money.
New Life Bible
The man who could not walk looked at them. He thought he would get something from them.
New Revised Standard
And he fixed his attention on them, expecting to receive something from them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, he, gave heed unto them, expecting to receive, something from them.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But he looked earnestly upon them, hoping that he should receive something of them.
Revised Standard Version
And he fixed his attention upon them, expecting to receive something from them.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he gaue hede vnto the trustinge to receave somthinge of them.
Young's Literal Translation
and he was giving heed to them, looking to receive something from them;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he gaue hede vnto them, hopynge to receaue some thinge of them.
Mace New Testament (1729)
at which he look'd very attentively, expecting to receive something of them.
Simplified Cowboy Version
The man looked up, obviously expecting a handout.

Contextual Overview

1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple, at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man, lame from his mother's womb, was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that were entering into the temple, Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, 3 asked an alms. 4 And Peter, looking stedfastly upon him, with John, said, Look on us. 5 And he gave heed to them, expecting to receive something of them. 6 Then said Peter, Silver and gold have I none; but what I have, I give thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. 7 And taking him by the right-hand, he lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankle-bones were strengthened, 8 And leaping up, he stood and walked, and went with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. 9 And all the people saw him walking and praising God. 10 And they knew him, that this was he who had sat for alms at the beautiful gate of the temple, and were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had befallen him.

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Matthew 6:23
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness: if therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness?
Acts 26:18
and the Gentiles, to whom I now send thee, To open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; that they may receive through faith which is in me, forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among them that are sanctified.
2 Corinthians 4:4
Whose unbelieving minds the god of this world hath blinded, lest the illumination of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine upon them.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from simplicity toward Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God as God, declaring himself that he is God.
Revelation 13:4
because he gave the authority to the wild beast; and worshiped the wild beast, saying, Who is like the wild beast? and who can war with him?
Revelation 13:14
And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the wonders which it is given him to do before the wild beast: saying to them that dwell on the earth, to make an image to the wild beast, which had the wound by the sword, and yet lived.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Expecting to receive something of them; not a cure for his lameness, which he little thought of, but some money, as an alms.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 3:5. Expecting to receive something of them. — Because it was a constant custom for all who entered the temple to carry money with them to give to the treasury, or to the poor, or to both. It was on this ground that the friends of the lame man laid him at the gate of the temple, as this was the most likely place to receive alms.


 
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