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Mon 7th September – Acts chapter 3:1-5:
Categories: Don’s Daily Devotions
Mon 7th September Read Acts chapter 3:1-5:
V1: Still worshipping as devout Jews, Peter and John are going to the temple at one of the set times of prayer for pious Jews – the 9th hour is our 3pm. Presumably, they do this daily – as Jewish believers who have found the true Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ – but He who is also “the Saviour of the world” ( John 4:42; 1 John 4:14.)
V2: They encounter a lame beggar, lame from birth, so friends carry him every day to the temple gates, where he would beg for alms – no doubt believing the devout on their way to worship would more readily give.
V3: So, observing Peter and John, he asks them for their charity, as he does to all who enter the temple.
V4-5: Peter tells the man to look at them, and no doubt this raises his hopes of receiving something from them. Remember, for such as him in that day, such gifts were his only means of support.