SUNDAY SCHOOL TEENAGERS 5/9/10

ACTS CHAPTER 3 VS 1- 5

Now this was after Pentecost, so cool I feel we were at Pentecost this past week.

1. Verse 1- Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. = Peter & John were together, Gods people need to be together, come together to church. The Ninth hour 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
   
2. Verse 2- And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple. = this crippled man was carried to the gate of the church, they knew where he could get help. He was begging from the Christians.
3. verse 3 - Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. = He saw Peter & John he recognized them, alms= mercy or pity, he begged.
4. verse 4 - And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John said, Look on us. = Peter making eye contact, not ignoring him.
5. verse 5 - And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them. = He payed attention to them, he might have even gotten a hold of their clothing as he is listening.

Peter & John went into the temple to pray in the afternoon at 3 o'clock, & saw a lame beggar. In the years past, handicap people often became beggars. The lame man had probably heard about Jesus' miracles, for in a visit to Jerusalem, Jesus healed a man blind from birth (Mark 10:51), which may have planted a seed of hope in the beggars heart.