Acts 3:3 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

When he saw Peter and John about to enter the Temple he asked them [also] for money.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So when he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked them to give him a gift.

American Standard Version (1901)

who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.

Common English Bible

When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he began to ask them for a gift.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And this man, when he had seen Peter and John beginning to enter the temple, was begging, so that he might receive alms.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

He, when he had seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.

Acts 3:3 Cross References

Luke 22:8

So, Jesus sent Peter and John [to Jerusalem], saying, “Go and prepare for us to eat the Passover [meal].”

Acts 3:1

Now Peter and John were going to the Temple at three o’clock one afternoon [Note: Jewish time calculations are employed here], during the regular [Jewish] prayer hour.

Acts 3:11

And as this [former] crippled man stayed close beside Peter and John, all the people rushed toward them at “Solomon’s Portico” [Note: This was a large covered area, with rows of columns, on the side of the Temple enclosure], completely astonished [at what had happened].

Acts 3:4

Peter looked directly at the man and, together with John, said [to him], “Look [at me].”