While the man clung to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and ran to them in the walkway called Solomon’s Colonnade.
11. In the porch. It is like that there was a porch built in that place where Solomon’s porch was sometimes, and that it took the name therefrom. For the old temple was pulled down, but Zerubbabel and Ezra, ill the re-edifying and new building of the same temple, had imitated the same, so nigh as they could possibly devise.
Luke records only those miracles the Holy Ghost deemed fit to serve the purpose of this sacred history, not every wonder the apostles performed. Peter and John were the principal men, and Luke was particular with them because they presided where he belonged; later he does the same with Paul, giving us specimens of what all the apostles did. Friendship bound these two closer than kinship ever could.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 3:1-11
And as the lame man which was healed,.... This is left out in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, and in the Alexandrian copy, which only read, and as he held Peter and John; by their clothes or arms, either through fear, lest his lameness should return on their leaving him; or rather out of affection to them for the favour he had received...