Acts 3:9

New Century Version

All 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.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
All the people saw him walking and praising God,

King James Version (1611)
And all the people saw him walking, and praising God.

King James Version
And all the people saw him walking and praising God:

English Standard Version
And all the people saw him walking and praising God,

New American Standard Bible
And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

Amplified Bible
All the people saw him walking and praising God;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

Legacy Standard Bible
And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

Berean Standard Bible
When all the people saw him walking and praising God,

Contemporary English Version
Everyone saw him walking around and praising God.

Complete Jewish Bible
Everyone saw him walking and praising God.

Darby Translation
And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

Easy-to-Read Version
All the people recognized him. They knew he was the crippled man who always sat by the Beautiful Gate to beg for money. Now they saw this same man walking and praising God. They were amazed. They did not understand how this could happen.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And all the people sawe him walke, and praysing God.

George Lamsa Translation
And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

Good News Translation
The people there saw him walking and praising God,

Lexham English Bible
And all the people saw him walking and praising God,

Literal Translation
And all the people saw him walking, and praising God.

American Standard Version
And all the people saw him walking and praising God:

Bible in Basic English
And all the people saw him walking and praising God:

Hebrew Names Version
All the people saw him walking and praising God.

International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
And all the people saw him walking and glorifying Aloha.

Murdock Translation
And all the people saw him, as he walked and praised God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And all the people sawe hym walke, and prayse God.

English Revised Version
And all the people saw him walking and praising God:

World English Bible
All the people saw him walking and praising God.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And all the people saw him walking and praising God.

Weymouth's New Testament
All the people saw him walking and praising God;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And al the puple sai hym walkinge, and heriynge God.

Update Bible Version
And all the people saw him walking and praising God:

Webster's Bible Translation
And all the people saw him walking and praising God:

New English Translation
All the people saw him walking and praising God,

New King James Version
And all the people saw him walking and praising God.

New Living Translation
All the people saw him walking and heard him praising God.

New Life Bible
All the people saw him walking and giving thanks to God.

New Revised Standard
All the people saw him walking and praising God,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And all the people saw him, walking and praising God;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all the people saw him walking and praising God.

Revised Standard Version
And all the people saw him walking and praising God,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And all the people sawe him walke and laude God.

Young's Literal Translation
and all the people saw him walking and praising God,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And all the people sawe him walke and prayse God.

Mace New Testament (1729)
all the people saw him walking and praising God.

THE MESSAGE
One day at three o'clock in the afternoon, Peter and John were on their way into the Temple for prayer meeting. At the same time there was a man crippled from birth being carried up. Every day he was set down at the Temple gate, the one named Beautiful, to beg from those going into the Temple. When he saw Peter and John about to enter the Temple, he asked for a handout. Peter, with John at his side, looked him straight in the eye and said, "Look here." He looked up, expecting to get something from them. Peter said, "I don't have a nickel to my name, but what I do have, I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk!" He grabbed him by the right hand and pulled him up. In an instant his feet and ankles became firm. He jumped to his feet and walked. The man went into the Temple with them, walking back and forth, dancing and praising God. Everybody there saw him walking around and praising God. They recognized him as the one who sat begging at the Temple's Gate Beautiful and rubbed their eyes, astonished, scarcely believing what they were seeing. The man threw his arms around Peter and John, ecstatic. All the people ran up to where they were at Solomon's Porch to see it for themselves. When Peter saw he had a congregation, he addressed the people: "Oh, Israelites, why does this take you by such complete surprise, and why stare at us as if our power or piety made him walk? The God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the God of our ancestors, has glorified his Son Jesus. The very One that Pilate called innocent, you repudiated. You repudiated the Holy One, the Just One, and asked for a murderer in his place. You no sooner killed the Author of Life than God raised him from the dead—and we're the witnesses. Faith in Jesus' name put this man, whose condition you know so well, on his feet—yes, faith and nothing but faith put this man healed and whole right before your eyes. "And now, friends, I know you had no idea what you were doing when you killed Jesus, and neither did your leaders. But God, who through the preaching of all the prophets had said all along that his Messiah would be killed, knew exactly what you were doing and used it to fulfill his plans. "Now it's time to change your ways! Turn to face God so he can wipe away your sins, pour out showers of blessing to refresh you, and send you the Messiah he prepared for you, namely, Jesus. For the time being he must remain out of sight in heaven until everything is restored to order again just the way God, through the preaching of his holy prophets of old, said it would be. Moses, for instance, said, ‘Your God will raise up for you a prophet just like me from your family. Listen to every word he speaks to you. Every last living soul who refuses to listen to that prophet will be wiped out from the people.' "All the prophets from Samuel on down said the same thing, said most emphatically that these days would come. These prophets, along with the covenant God made with your ancestors, are your family tree. God's covenant-word to Abraham provides the text: ‘By your offspring all the families of the earth will be blessed.' But you are first in line: God, having raised up his Son, sent him to bless you as you turn, one by one, from your evil ways."

Simplified Cowboy Version
Everyone was staring at what had just happened.

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

Acts 14:11, Mark 2:11, Mark 2:12, Luke 13:17

Reciprocal: Acts 4:16 - a notable

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 3:17
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 3:19
You will sweat and work hard for your food. Later you will return to the ground, because you were taken from it. You are dust, and when you die, you will return to the dust."

Genesis 3:20
The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Genesis 3:21
The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.

Genesis 4:9
Later, the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" Cain answered, "I don't know. Is it my job to take care of my brother?"

Genesis 11:5
The Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.

Genesis 16:8
The angel said, "Hagar, Sarai's slave girl, where have you come from? Where are you going?" Hagar answered, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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. The Arabic version renders it, "saw him walking to praise God": that is, entering into the temple with the apostles, in order to offer up the sacrifice of praise to God there.

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.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 3:9. And all the people saw him — The miracle was wrought in the most public manner, and in the most public place, and in a place where the best judgment could be formed of it; for, as it was a Divine operation, the priests, c., were the most proper persons to judge of it and under their notice it was now wrought.