“And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.”
Peter looked straight at him, as did John. Then Peter said, 'Look at us!' — the direct look (atenizo, fixed gaze, intense attention) commands the beggar's attention; no more mechanical requests but genuine encounter. The command 'Look at us!' (idē) requires the man to meet their gaze, to see and be seen, a precondition for the healing.
Church Fathers on Acts 3:4
And 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. Acts 3:2 He sought to receive alms, and he did not know who the men were. Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, asked an alms. And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him, with John, said, Look on us. (v. 3, 4.) Yet, not even so were the man's thoughts elevated, but he persisted in…
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