While he still clung to Peter and John, the people, awe-struck, ran up crowding round them in what was known as Solomon's Portico.
Jesus sent Peter and John with instructions. »Go,« He said, »and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat it.«
But the man from whom the demons had gone out earnestly asked permission to go with Him; but He sent him away.
and Jesus was walking in the Temple in Solomon's Portico,
So when this noise was heard, they came crowding together, and were amazed because everyone heard his own language spoken.
Peter, seeing this, spoke to the people. »Israelites,« he said, »why do you wonder at this man? Or why gaze at us, as though by any power or piety of our own we had enabled him to walk?
Seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he asked them for alms.
Peter fixing his eyes on him, as John did also, said, »Look at us.«
Many signs and marvels continued to be done among the people by the Apostles; and by common consent they all met in Solomon's Portico.