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Acts 3:2 alms. Money or goods given to the poor.
Acts 3:6 To heal in the name of Jesus was to do so by his power and presence.
Acts 3:11–26 Peter’s second sermon in the temple area was primarily a call for Jews to repent of their rejection of Jesus as Messiah.
Acts 3:11 Solomon’s portico was a covered walkway along the eastern wall of the temple area. See also 5:12.
Acts 3:13–16 The reference to Jesus as God’s servant recalls Isa. 52:13–53:12. you delivered over and denied. . . . you denied. . . . you killed. Thus the people need Jesus’ forgiveness, which he will give if they repent of their previous unbelief.
Acts 3:14 Holy One and Righteous One are messianic terms (see Isa. 53:11; Mark 1:24).
Acts 3:15 you killed . . . God raised. . . . we are witnesses. The truth of Jesus’ death and resurrection is a recurring theme in the speeches in Acts (see 2:23–24; 4:10; 5:30–32; 10:39–41; 13:28–29; see also 1 Cor. 15:1–4).
Acts 3:16 By faith in his name refers to Peter’s faith, not to faith on the part of the lame man. the faith that is through Jesus. Jesus himself gives believers this kind of miracle-working faith.
Acts 3:17 you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. They did not fully understand that Jesus was the Messiah and the true Son of God. But such ignorance does not release people from responsibility for their actions.
Acts 3:18 See notes on 2:23; 3:13–16; 3:17; 4:27.
Acts 3:20 People experience times of refreshing when the Holy Spirit comes to dwell within them. This “refreshing” comes also to the world in general through believers who are changed by the Spirit’s power. That he may send the Christ is a clear reference to the second coming of Christ (see v. 21).
Acts 3:21 the time for restoring all the things. Christ will return and his kingdom will be established on earth. The earth will be renewed beyond what it was before Adam and Eve’s fall (see note on Rom. 8:20–21).
Acts 3:22–23 Peter quoted Deut. 18:15 to establish that Jesus was the prophet like me that God had promised to send, and to point out the danger of rejecting Jesus.
Acts 3:24 Samuel was considered the next prophet after Moses. these days. The coming of Christ and the new covenant age that began at Pentecost.
Acts 3:25–26 all the families of the earth. The gospel’s worldwide mission was already present in Peter’s message. Later, however, he would more fully understand what that mission entailed (see 10:1–11:18).
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