Acts 3:3
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New International Version (©2011)
When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for money.

New Living Translation (©2007)
When he saw Peter and John about to enter, he asked them for some money.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive alms.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking to receive alms.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When he saw Peter and John about to enter the temple complex, he asked for help.

International Standard Version (©2012)
When he saw that Peter and John were about to go into the Temple, he asked them to give him something.

NET Bible (©2006)
When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple courts, he asked them for money.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
This one, when he saw Shimeon and Yohannan entering The Temple, was begging them to give him charity.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When the man saw that Peter and John were about to go into the courtyard, he asked them for a handout.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked for alms.

American King James Version
Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.

American Standard Version
who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He, when he had seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.

Darby Bible Translation
who, seeing Peter and John about to enter into the temple, asked to receive alms.

English Revised Version
who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked to receive an alms.

Webster's Bible Translation
Who, seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked an alms.

Weymouth New Testament
Seeing Peter and John about to go into the Temple, he asked them for alms.

World English Bible
Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive gifts for the needy.

Young's Literal Translation
who, having seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, was begging to receive a kindness.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:1-11 The apostles and the first believers attended the temple worship at the hours of prayer. Peter and John seem to have been led by a Divine direction, to work a miracle on a man above forty years old, who had been a cripple from his birth. Peter, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, bade him rise up and walk. Thus, if we would attempt to good purpose the healing of men's souls, we must go forth in the name and power of Jesus Christ, calling on helpless sinners to arise and walk in the way of holiness, by faith in Him. How sweet the thought to our souls, that in respect to all the crippled faculties of our fallen nature, the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth can make us whole! With what holy joy and rapture shall we tread the holy courts, when God the Spirit causes us to enter therein by his strength!

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 3. - To receive an alms for an alms, A.V. and T.R. The R.T. has ἐλεημοσύνην λαβεῖν.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple,.... Just as they were entering through the gate at which he lay, he looked at them; and though they were strangers to him, he concluded they were Israelites by their going into the temple at that time:

asked an alms; of them; prayed them to give him something for his relief and support.

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Healing the Lame Beggar
1Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2And 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; 3Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. …

Luke 22:8 Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover."
Acts 3:1 One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of prayer--at three in the afternoon.
Acts 3:4 Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, "Look at us!"
Acts 3:11 While the man held on to Peter and John, all the people were astonished and came running to them in the place called Solomon's Colonnade.