Act 3:8 | KingComments | STEP | The result is there immediately. The recovery is complete and verifiable. There is no need to present doctor’s certificates. The man leaps up, stands upright and walks. His first steps are to the temple which he enters together with Peter and John. He has always sat at its door, now he goes in. He does that together with others. At the same time he personally expresses his gratitude. He walks and leaps and praises God. God gets the honor. What he does is a testimony for the whole people who see him walking and hear him praising God. The people know him. He was part of the daily sight of the temple because he sat there begging every day. Some people may have given him something out of pity, but no one could help him get rid of his lameness. Of course, everyone had reconciled themselves to the idea that he could not be helped. But it is precisely this hopeless case for people that becomes a great testimony of the Name of the Lord Jesus. The healed man clings to Peter and John, so that it is clear to everyone who has been used for his healing. It also shows the understandable desire of someone who has just been converted to stay with the one who has been the means of his conversion. It is also a proof of new life when fellowship is sought with others who support him spiritually and help him to grow as a Christian. The man wants to belong to and stay with Peter and John. His healing causes a popular uproar. All the people come to the temple, to the so-called portico of Solomon. In the portico of Solomon the Lord walked when He was asked whether He was the Christ ( ) and there the apostles met ( ). It is a place of encounter. The people are full of amazement about the healing. It is also an enormous wonder to see him, whom they have had as a lame man in their midst for more than forty years.

‏ Acts 3:8

Effect of Healing

The result is there immediately. The recovery is complete and verifiable. There is no need to present doctor’s certificates. The man leaps up, stands upright and walks. His first steps are to the temple which he enters together with Peter and John. He has always sat at its door, now he goes in. He does that together with others. At the same time he personally expresses his gratitude. He walks and leaps and praises God. God gets the honor.

What he does is a testimony for the whole people who see him walking and hear him praising God. The people know him. He was part of the daily sight of the temple because he sat there begging every day. Some people may have given him something out of pity, but no one could help him get rid of his lameness. Of course, everyone had reconciled themselves to the idea that he could not be helped. But it is precisely this hopeless case for people that becomes a great testimony of the Name of the Lord Jesus.

The healed man clings to Peter and John, so that it is clear to everyone who has been used for his healing. It also shows the understandable desire of someone who has just been converted to stay with the one who has been the means of his conversion. It is also a proof of new life when fellowship is sought with others who support him spiritually and help him to grow as a Christian. The man wants to belong to and stay with Peter and John.

His healing causes a popular uproar. All the people come to the temple, to the so-called portico of Solomon. In the portico of Solomon the Lord walked when He was asked whether He was the Christ (Jn 10:23-24) and there the apostles met (Acts 5:12). It is a place of encounter. The people are full of amazement about the healing. It is also an enormous wonder to see him, whom they have had as a lame man in their midst for more than forty years.