“And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.”
So the beggar gave them his attention, expecting to get something from them — the man's expectation is modest: money, alms, the same as from any passerby. He is about to encounter not charity but transformation; not a coin but the ability to walk. His lowered expectations set the stage for the miracle's radical exceed-ance.
Church Fathers on Acts 3:5
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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