Kisah Para Rasul 3:1-4

Peter and John Heal a Lame Man at the Temple

3:1 Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time ¹  for prayer, ²  at three o’clock in the afternoon. ³  3:2 And a man lame ⁴  from birth ⁵  was being carried up, who was placed at the temple gate called “the Beautiful Gate” every day ⁶  so he could beg for money ⁷  from those going into the temple courts. ⁸  3:3 When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, ⁹  he asked them for money. ¹⁰  3:4 Peter looked directly ¹¹  at him (as did John) and said, “Look at us!”

Kisah Para Rasul 3:11

Peter Addresses the Crowd

3:11 While the man ¹²  was hanging on to Peter and John, all the people, completely astounded, ran together to them in the covered walkway ¹³  called Solomon’s Portico. ¹⁴ 

[3:1]  ¹ tn Grk “hour.”

[3:1]  ² sn Going up to the temple at the time for prayer. The earliest Christians, being of Jewish roots, were still participating in the institutions of Judaism at this point. Their faith in Christ did not make them non-Jewish in their practices.

[3:1]  ³ tn Grk “at the ninth hour.” This is calculated from sunrise (Josephus, Ant. 14.4.3 [14.65]; Dan 9:21).

[3:2]  ⁴ tn Or “crippled.”

[3:2]  ⁵ tn Grk “from his mother’s womb.”

[3:2]  ⁶ tn BDAG 437 s.v. ἡμέρα 2.c has “every day” for this phrase.

[3:2]  ⁷ tn Grk “alms.” The term “alms” is not in common use today, so what the man expected, “money,” is used in the translation instead. The idea is that of money given as a gift to someone who was poor. Giving alms was viewed as honorable in Judaism (Tob 1:3, 16; 12:8-9; m. Pe’ah 1:1). See also Luke 11:41; 12:33; Acts 9:36; 10:2, 4, 31; 24:17.

[3:2]  ⁸ tn Grk “the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

[3:2]  sn Into the temple courts. The exact location of this incident is debated. The ‘Beautiful Gate’ referred either to the Nicanor Gate (which led from the Court of the Gentiles into the Court of Women) or the Shushan Gate at the eastern wall.

[3:3]  ⁹ tn Grk “the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.

[3:3]  sn See the note on the phrase the temple courts in the previous verse.

[3:3]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “alms.” See the note on the word “money” in the previous verse.

[3:4]  ¹¹ tn Grk “Peter, looking directly at him, as did John, said.” The participle ἀτενίσας (atenisas) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.

[3:11]  ¹² tn Grk “he”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:11]  ¹³ tn Or “portico,” “colonnade”; Grk “stoa.” The translation “covered walkway” (a descriptive translation) was used here because the architectural term “portico” or “colonnade” is less familiar. However, the more technical term “portico” was retained in the actual name that follows.

[3:11]  ¹⁴ sn Solomon’s Portico was a covered walkway formed by rows of columns supporting a roof and open on the inner side facing the center of the temple complex. It was located on the east side of the temple (Josephus, Ant. 15.11.3-5 [15.391-420], 20.9.7 [20.221]) and was a place of commerce and conversation.