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New Century Version

Acts 3:3

The man saw Peter and John going into the Temple and asked them for money.

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.
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.
Legacy Standard Bible
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

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

Reciprocal: Mark 10:46 - begging

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
The man said, "You gave this woman to me and she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it."
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."
Genesis 3:16
Then God said to the woman, "I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant, and when you give birth to children, you will have great pain. You will greatly desire your husband, but he will rule over you."
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 20:6
Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, "Yes, I know you did not realize what you were doing. So I did not allow you to sin against me and touch her.
1 Chronicles 16:22
He said, "Don't touch my chosen people, and don't harm my prophets."
Job 1:11
But reach out your hand and destroy everything he has, and he will curse you to your face."
Job 2:5
But reach out your hand and destroy his flesh and bones, and he will curse you to your face."
Job 19:21
Pity me, my friends, pity me, because the hand of God has hit me.
1 Corinthians 7:1
Now I will discuss the things you wrote me about. It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with 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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