Acts 3:3

3 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he asked them for alms.

Acts 3:3 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 3:3

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.

Acts 3:3 In-Context

1 One day Peter and John were going up to the Temple for the hour of prayer--the ninth hour--and, just then,

2 some men were carrying there one who had been lame from birth, whom they were wont to place every day close to the Beautiful Gate (as it was called) of the Temple, for him to beg from the people as they went in.

3 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he asked them for alms.

4 Peter fixing his eyes on him, as John did also, said, "Look at us."

5 So he looked and waited, expecting to receive something from them.