Acts 3:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those entering the temple.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² [When] a certain man crippled from his birth was being carried along, who was laid each day at that gate of the temple [which is] called Beautiful, so that he might beg for charitable gifts from those who entered the temple.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And a certain man that was lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;

Common English Bible

² Meanwhile, a man crippled since birth was being carried in. Every day, people would place him at the temple gate known as the Beautiful Gate so he could ask for money from those entering the temple.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And a certain man, who was lame from his mother's womb, was being carried in. They would lay him every day at the gate of the temple, which is called the Beautiful, so that he might request alms from those entering into the temple.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And a certain man who was lame from his mother's womb, was carried: whom they laid every day at the gate of the temple, which is called Beautiful, that he might ask alms of them that went into the temple.

Acts 3:2 Cross References

Luke 16:20

And at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,

Luke 18:35

As he approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the roadside begging.

John 9:8

The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

Acts 10:31

He said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard, and your alms have been remembered before God.

Acts 10:4

He stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” He answered, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.

Acts 14:8

In Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet and had never walked, for he had been lame from birth.

Acts 3:10

and they recognized him as the one who used to sit and ask for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with wonder and astonishment at what had happened to him.

Acts 4:22

For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.