![]() ![]() To address the wonderment of the crowd, Peter preached his second great sermon in Acts. ![]() Onlookers realized that this was the lame man who used to sit at the gate begging, and they were amazed and wondered what had happened (Acts 3:10). The man made a commotion as he put his legs to good use, and all the people in the temple saw him walking and leaping and praising God (Acts 3:9). He was not only walking but “leaping and praising God” (Acts 3:8, ESV). The healed man began to walk with Peter and John into the temple courts. “He jumped to his feet and began to walk” (Acts 3:8). Peter grabbed the man’s right hand and pulled him up, and immediately the man’s feet and ankles were strengthened (Acts 3:7). This would have seemed a strange direction to give a man who had been lame from birth, but Peter did not leave it at that. Peter then commanded the man in the name of Jesus the Nazarene to walk (Acts 3:6). Peter explained that they didn’t have silver or gold, but that what they did have they would give to him. Realizing that Peter and John were focusing on him, the man thought they were going to give him money (Acts 3:5). In response, they told him to look at them (Acts 3:4). When Peter and John passed by on their way to the temple, the man asked them for money (Acts 3:3). The man who had been healed was lame from birth, and he was set down at a temple gate every day where he would beg for money (Acts 3:2). He had good reason to do so, as he had just received a miracle at the hands of the apostle Peter. In Acts 3:8 we encounter a man who was walking and leaping and praising God. ![]()
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