Acts 3:1-3
THE HEALING OF THE LAME MAN. The lame beggar:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HEALING OF THE LAME MAN. The lame beggar:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW PETER AND JOHN WENT UP TOGETHER INTO THE TEMPLE AT THE HOUR OF PRAYER, BEING THE NINTH HOUR.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND A CERTAIN MAN LAME FROM HIS MOTHER'S WOMB WAS CARRIED, WHOM THEY LAID DAILY AT THE GATE OF THE TEMPLE WHICH IS CALLED BEAUTIFUL, TO ASK ALMS OF THEM THAT ENTERED INTO THE TEMPLE;... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO, SEEING PETER AND JOHN ABOUT TO GO INTO THE TEMPLE, ASKED AN ALMS. Of the many signs and wonders which the apostles performed for the confirmation of their teaching, chap. 2:43, Luke here narrates one which stands out from the rest by virtue of the amount of attention it attracted. The disciples... [ Continue Reading ]
AND PETER, FASTENING HIS EYES UPON HIM WITH JOHN, SAID, LOOK ON US.... [ Continue Reading ]
The miracle of healing:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE GAVE HEED UNTO THEM, EXPECTING TO RECEIVE SOMETHING OF THEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PETER SAID, SILVER AND GOLD HAVE I NONE; BUT SUCH AS I HAVE GIVE I THEE: IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH RISE UP AND WALK.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE TOOK HIM BY THE RIGHT HAND AND LIFTED HIM UP; AND IMMEDIATELY HIS FEET AND ANKLE-BONES RECEIVED STRENGTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE, LEAPING UP, STOOD, AND WALKED, AND ENTERED WITH THEM INTO THE TEMPLE, WALKING, AND LEAPING, AND PRAISING GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ALL THE PEOPLE SAW HIM WALKING AND PRAISING GOD.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY KNEW THAT IT WAS HE WHICH SAT FOR ALMS AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE OF THE TEMPLE; AND THEY WERE FILLED WITH WONDER AND AMAZEMENT AT THAT WHICH HAD HAPPENED UNTO HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS THE LAME MAN WHICH WAS HEALED HELD PETER AND JOHN, ALL THE PEOPLE RAN TOGETHER UNTO THEM IN THE PORCH THAT IS CALLED SOLOMON'S, GREATLY WONDERING. The attention of the apostles having thus been directed to the beggar, whom they otherwise might have passed, as they probably had done scores of... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ADDRESS OF PETER IN THE TEMPLE. An emphatic application of the Law:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN PETER SAW IT, HE ANSWERED UNTO THE PEOPLE, YE MEN OF ISRAEL, WHY MARVEL YE AT THIS, OR WHY LOOK YE SO EARNESTLY ON US, AS THOUGH BY OUR OWN POWER OR HOLINESS WE HAD MADE THIS MAN TO WALK?... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GOD OF ABRAHAM AND OF ISAAC AND OF JACOB, THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS, HATH GLORIFIED HIS SON JESUS; WHOM YE DELIVERED UP, AND DENIED HIM IN THE PRESENCE OF PILATE, WHEN HE WAS DETERMINED TO LET HIM GO.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT YE DENIED THE HOLY ONE AND THE JUST, AND DESIRED A MURDERER TO BE GRANTED UNTO YOU;... [ Continue Reading ]
AND KILLED THE PRINCE OF LIFE, WHOM GOD HATH RAISED FROM THE DEAD, WHEREOF WE ARE WITNESSES. In this account, as well as in that of the previous Chapter, one must marvel at the boldness of Peter. He who but a few weeks before had quailed before the scorn of a maid-servant and shamefully denied his M... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HIS NAME, THROUGH FAITH IN HIS NAME, HATH MADE THIS MAN STRONG WHOM YE SEE AND KNOW; YEA, THE FAITH WHICH IS BY HIM HATH GIVEN HIM THIS PERFECT SOUNDNESS IN THE PRESENCE OF YOU ALL.... [ Continue Reading ]
The basis of the present facts in prophecy:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND NOW, BRETHREN, I WOT THAT THROUGH IGNORANCE YE DID IT, AS DID ALSO YOUR RULERS.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THOSE THINGS WHICH GOD BEFORE HAD SHOWED BY THE MOUTH OF ALL HIS PROPHETS, THAT CHRIST SHOULD SUFFER, HE HATH SO FULFILLED. Peter had preached the Law to the assembled Jews; he had shown them the heinousness of their transgression against their Lord and Savior; he had forced upon them the convic... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR MOSES TRULY SAID UNTO THE FATHERS, A PROPHET SHALL THE LORD, YOUR GOD, RAISE UP UNTO YOU OF YOUR BRETHREN LIKE UNTO ME; HIM SHALL YE HEAR IN ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER HE SHALL SAY UNTO YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
A final exhortation:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS THAT EVERY SOUL WHICH WILL NOT HEAR THAT PROPHET SHALL BE DESTROYED FROM AMONG THE PEOPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
YEA, AND ALL THE PROPHETS FROM SAMUEL AND THOSE THAT FOLLOW AFTER, AS MANY AS HAVE SPOKEN, HAVE LIKEWISE FORETOLD OF THESE DAYS.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE PROPHETS, AND OF THE COVENANT WHICH GOD MADE WITH OUR FATHERS, SAYING UNTO ABRAHAM, AND IN THY SEED SHALL ALL THE KINDREDS OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO YOU FIRST GOD, HAVING RAISED UP HIS SON JESUS, SENT HIM TO BLESS YOU, IN TURNING A WAY EVERY ONE OF YOU FROM HIS INIQUITIES. That Jesus of Nazareth was indeed the Messiah appointed to the Jews, and that the prophecies were fulfilled in Him, Peter brings out in the last part of his discourse. Mo... [ Continue Reading ]