Acts 3:2
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And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
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a certain man lame from his mother's womb--and now "above forty years old" (Act 4:22). was carried--was wont to be carried.
Open source ↗In this chapter we have a miracle and a sermon: the miracle wrought to make way for the sermon, to confirm the doctrine that was to be preached, and to make way for it into the minds of the people; and then the sermon to explain the miracle, and to sow the ground which by it was broken up. I. The miracle was the healing of a man that was lame from his birth, with a word speaking (Act 3:1-8), and the impression which this made upon the people (Act 3:9-11). II. The scope of the sermon which was preached hereupon was to bring people to Christ, to repent of their sin in crucifying him (Act 3:12-19), to believe in him now that he was glorified, and to comply with the Father's design in glorifying him (Act 3:20-26). The former part of the discourse opens the wound, the latter applies the remedy.
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In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
And a beggar named Lazarus lay at his gate, covered with sores
and said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your gifts to the poor have been remembered before God.
As Jesus drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting beside the road, begging.
For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
Cornelius stared at him in fear and asked, “What is it, Lord?” The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have ascended as a memorial offering before God.