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Acts 3 Bible study: What I have, that I give you
Peter fastened his eyes on the lame man (3:4), then asked the people why they fastened their eyes on him and John (3:12): in Acts's Greek, one verb. And the man's feet "received strength" (3:7) by the same verb Peter uses when he says Jesus's name "has made this man strong" (3:16).
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What I have, that I give you
"Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour." (3:1). A man "who was lame from his mother’s womb" (3:2) (tap lame) was carried there, "whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple" (3:2) (tap gifts for the needy). Seeing Peter and John, "he asked to receive gifts for the needy" (3:3). Peter said, "Look at us." (3:4), and "He listened to them, expecting to receive something from them." (3:5). Here is what almost everyone misses: Peter's answer begins with what he doesn't have. "I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!" (3:6) (tap name). Acts says three times that gifts for the needy were what the man asked for or sat begging for (3:2, 3:3, 3:10). Peter gives him neither silver nor gold. "He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength." (3:7) (tap strength). "Leaping up, he stood and began to walk. He entered with them into the temple, walking, leaping, and praising God." (3:8).
Where the Old Testament leads here
A promise kept
Genesis 12:3leads toActs 3:25-26
"All the families of the earth will be blessed through you." Peter quotes God's promise to Abraham, joining this verse's "all the families of the earth" with "your offspring" (as in 22:18), and says: "God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you."
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The Greek word behind it
ὄνομαonomasay ON-om-ah
Thayer: "the name by which a person or a thing is called, and distinguished from others". Peter says, "In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!" (3:6), and then, "By faith in his name, his name has made this man strong" (3:16): behind name each time is this noun. Acts's Greek has it 60 times (counted in RP2018), more than any other book of the New Testament. In the next chapter Peter and John are commanded "not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus" (4:18). Favor's John 17 studies the word too.
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Acts 3 Bible study questions
- 1"I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you" (3:6). What do you have that you could give someone this week?
- 2Peter asks, "Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?" (3:12). When has someone pointed you away from themselves and toward God?
- 3"Repent therefore, and turn again" (3:19). What helps you turn back to God when you've drifted?
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