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

³ When he saw Peter and John about to enter the Temple he asked them [also] for money.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ 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)

³ who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.

Common English Bible

³ When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he began to ask them for a gift.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ 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

³ 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].”