And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.
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Gill's Exposition
And they knew it was he that sat for alms,.... The Syriac version renders it, "they knew him to be that beggar that sat daily and asked alms". As he was daily brought thither, and had, for many years,…
And all the people ... - The people who had been accustomed to see him sit in a public place. And they knew ... - In this they could not be deceived; they had seen him a long time, and now they saw…
We were told in general (Act 2:43) that many signs and wonders were done by the apostles, which are not written in this book; but here we have one given us for an instance. As they wrought miracles,…
Cambridge Bible
and they knew that it was he, &c. The same verb is rendered (Act 4:13) they took knowledge, and that sense is perhaps the better here. It can hardly have been intended to say that the whole of the…
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