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Acts 15:22-24 in Latin (left column) and Greek (right column) in Codex Laudianus, written about AD 550.
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Book | Acts of the Apostles |
Bible part | New Testament |
Order in the Bible part | 5 |
Category | Church history |
Acts 3 is the third chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the healing of a disabled person by the apostles Peter and John, and Peter's preaching at Solomon’s Portico in the Temple.[1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.[2]
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Contents
Text
The original text is written in Koine Greek and is divided into 26 verses. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:
- Papyrus 91 (3rd century; extant: verses 1-2)
- Codex Vaticanus (AD 325-350)
- Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-360)
- Codex Bezae (ca. AD 400)
- Codex Alexandrinus (ca. AD 400-440)
- Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (ca. AD 450)
- Codex Laudianus (ca. AD 550)
Structure
This chapter can be grouped:
- Acts 3:1-10 = A lame man healed at the Temple
- Acts 3:11-26 = Peter's preaching in Solomon's Porch
Cross reference
Verse 6
- Then Peter said, "Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk".[3]
The healing of the lame man in this chapter becomes the inspiration of some songs. One of the famous ones is the children song: "Silver and Gold Have I None".[4]
Verse 17
Many older texts of the New Testament use the traditional but now obsolete wording 'I wot', which is now translated as 'I know'.[5] According to Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (1905), the 1899 Douai-Rheims version was the first (at the time, the only) translation to substitute 'I know' for the traditional 'I wot'.[6]
See also
- Jerusalem
- John the Apostle
- Simon Peter
- Solomon
- Other related Bible parts: Genesis 22, Genesis 26, Genesis 28, Deuteronomy 18, Acts 2
References
- ^ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
- ^ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
- ^ Acts 3:6 King James Version
- ^ Cedarmont Kids - Silver & Gold Have I None
- ^ e.g. King James Version, Wycliffe Bible, Authorised Version
- ^ Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers http://biblehub.com/commentaries/ellicott/acts/3.htm accessed 4 August 2015