One who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg forĬharitable gifts, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at Walking and praising God 10 and they recognized him as being the very Up, he stood and began to walk and he entered the temple with them, Immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened. To you: In the name of Jesus Christ the Nazarene, walk!”ħ And grasping him by the right hand, he raised him up and Peter said, “I do not have silver and gold, but what I do have I give Them his attention, expecting to receive something from them. John, looked at him intently and said, “Look at us!” 5 And he gave When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple grounds, heīegan asking to receive a charitable gift. The gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, in order for him toīeg for charitable gifts from those entering the temple grounds. 2 And a man who had been unable to walk fromīirth was being carried, whom they used to set down every day at Healing the Beggar Who Was Unable to Walkģ Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the ninth hour, The above verse refers to the beggar, at Acts 3:1-10, when he saw Peter and John began asking for a charitable gift. God to convert a sinner of forty or four-score, as one of ten yearsĮven though, I think there must be many more explanations in the Bible that are hidden from me, I hope someone can provide more on this theme.įor the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.What does Acts 4:22 mean by referring to the age of the man that was healed? Great, yield equally to the sovereign power of God. The man was above forty years old - The disease was of long standing,Īnd consequently the more inveterate but all difficulties, small or But after a continuance ofĤ0 years, all hope of healing him by any ordinary means must have beenĪbandoned, and all pretence that this was jugglery or deception must Man, the case would not been so remarkable. If it had been a man who hadīeen lame but a few years, or if it had been a child or a very young The age of the man is mentioned to show theĬertainty and greatness of the miracle. a man could be healed by doctors when younger with that disease Īs it's confirmed by Barnes and Clarkes respectively:įor the man.
For the Pharisees and leaders of the temple the tables have been completely overturned Jesus has attacked their source of income by casting out the merchants and money-changers, people are disobeying tradition and bringing the blind and lame into the temple to Jesus, children are declaring Christ as Messiah and Jesus won’t quieten them, and Christ is praying to his Father and bringing wholeness to mankind.In my view when it says that the man was over fourty years of age with blindness, it possibly tells us that even in an advanced age, he could be healed by Christ, for in that time it could be that: The children fill the temple also and cry praises to the Son of David.
The temple is cleansed of lies and oppression and the True light enters with acceptance and healing. This is then the context in which Jesus, arriving at his very own palace and temple, cleanses the temple from things that shouldn’t have been there, money-changers and merchants, peddling hope to the poor and desperate, whilst filling their pockets with the carnal comfort of money, and returns the blind and lame to their rightful place in the temple to experience the love and mercy of God. A law- worshipping spirit thinks it is protecting the Holy Law when it erects extra legalistic fences around the Word given, without realizing that they have added to the Truth and created something abominable. The Levitical law did never mean this, but the false zeal of the religious elite pushed these needy people further away from social and religious acceptance. The effect upon them socially and religiously is that they were as unclean outcasts, even maybe souls cursed of God, asking mercy of those “more worthy people” who, able bodied and blessed, may enter the temple and so draw near to God.
So, in Jesus time, the blind and lame were set down at the enterings in of the temple to beg alms but were not allowed to go into the temple. I think what happened here is that David was humiliated by the jeering comments of the Jebusites that boasted that even the lame and blind would be able to keep David’s troops out, and when David declared his hatred for “the lame and the blind”, meaning specifically the Jebusites and not people with physical hindrances, the religious zealots or people trying to show love and allegiance to the King David, took things out of context and made a new tradition the blind and lame, who were already disallowed to be priests by the Levitical law, were now declared to be disallowed entry into God’s temple.
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