Acts 3:2

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

[On their way] they met a certain man who had been crippled from birth. Every day he had been carried [by friends] and placed at the “Beautiful Gate” [as it was called] of the Temple [enclosure] where he begged for money from those entering the Temple.

Cross References

Acts 14:8

At Lystra they met a certain man sitting [on the street] who had a crippling handicap in his feet which he had suffered since birth. [It was so severe] he was never able to walk.

John 9:8

Then the neighbors, who had previously seen the man begging, said, “Is not this the man who [used to] sit there and beg?”

Luke 16:20

And a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was full of sores, was laid at the rich man’s doorway.

Acts 10:31

He said to me, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and God has taken account of your giving money to poor people.

Luke 18:35

And it happened as Jesus was approaching Jericho [Note: This was a town about eighteen miles northeast of Jerusalem], that a certain blind man was [seen] sitting along side of the road, begging.

Acts 10:4

As he stared at [the angel] in fright, he asked, “What is it, Lord?” [Note: The word “Lord” here could also be translated “Sir,” and its correct rendering depends on whether or not Cornelius understood the angel to be from God]. And the angel replied, “Your [continual] prayers and [generous] gifts to poor people have not gone unnoticed before God.

Acts 4:22

Now the man who was healed was over forty years old.

Acts 3:10

And they recognized him as the same person who had sat at the “Beautiful Gate” of the Temple begging for money, and they were filled with wonder and amazement over what had happened to him.