Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
Luke selects one miracle from many to show us, and gathers all its circumstances carefully: a man lame from birth, not from injury, lies helpless until carried daily to beg. When Peter heals him, he leaps up and walks joyfully through the temple at prayer time, and all the people know him. Every detail serves to establish the reality of what God did.
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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.
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Commenting on Acts 3:1-11
The apostles went to the temple with their countrymen to worship as they always had, not yet having left that place of their fathers. Luke gives us particulars: where the miracle occurred, who witnessed it, the exact hour. This is how honest men write who mean to tell the truth, not impostors content with vague claims.
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