with great happiness and single-heartedness,
002:047 praising God and being regarded with favour by all the people.
Also, day by day, the Lord added to their number those whom
He was saving.
003:001 One day Peter and John were going up to the Temple for the hour
of prayer--the ninth hour--and, just then,
003:002 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.
003:003 Seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he asked
them for alms.
003:004 Peter fixing his eyes on him, as John did also, said, "Look at us."
003:005 So he looked and waited, expecting to receive something from them.
003:006 "I have no silver or gold," Peter said, "but what I have, I give you.
In the name of Jesus Christ, the Nazarene--walk!"
003:007 Then taking his hand Peter lifted him up, and immediately
his feet and ankles were strengthened.
003:008 Leaping up, he stood upright and began to walk, and went into
the Temple with them, walking, leaping, and praising God.
003:009 All the people saw him walking and praising God;
003:010 and recognizing him as the man who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate
of the Temple asking for alms, they were filled with awe
and amazement at what had happened to him.
003:011 While he still clung to Peter and John, the people, awe-struck, ran up
crowding round them in what was known as Solomon's Portico.
003:012 Peter, seeing this, spoke to the people. "Israelites," he said,
"why do you wonder at this man? Or why gaze at us, as though
by any power or piety of our own we had enabled him to walk?
003:013 The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers,