What A Gift!

God gifts broken people with the ability to praise His name.

1. The Place

Peter and John

The Temple

3 in the after noon.

An Exposition of the New Testament, Volumes I–III Chapter 3

This was one of their hours of prayer; it was customary with the Jews to pray three times a day, Dan. 6:10 which, according to the Psalmist in Psal. 55:17 were evening, morning, and at noon; to which seems to answer the three times that are taken notice of by Luke in this history: that in the morning was at the third hour, as in ch. 2:15 or nine o’clock in the morning; that at noon was at the sixth hour, as in ch. 10:9 or twelve o’clock at noon; and that in the evening at the ninth hour, as here, or three o’clock in the afternoon.

The Gate Called Beautiful

Beautiful Gate.” This may be identical with the Nicanor Gate, as it is called in the Mishnah,9 leading into the Court of the Women; the name here given to it may be more readily understood if it is further identified with the gate of Corinthian bronze described by Josephus, of such exquisite workmanship that it “far exceeded in value those gates that were plated with silver and set in gold.

Frederick Fyvie Bruce (Professor)

The Jewish historian Josephus described this gate on the temple mount; made of fine Corinthian brass, seventy-five feet high with huge double doors, so beautiful that it “greatly excelled those that were only covered over with silver and gold.”

David Guzik

2. The Paralytic

Lame from birth

1741An old Puritan says, “Come to Jesus, sinner, and if you are lame, come lame. If you say you have no feet, come on your stumps. Come as you can, for he cannot reject you till he denies himself.—15.204

Charles Spurgeon

Carried There

Placed there each day

Beg from those entering the temple

You must be born again. This is not a command, it is a foundation fact. The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

Oswald Chambers (Lecturer and Missionary)

John 9:1–12 (CSB)

1 As he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works might be displayed in him.

4 We must do the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 After he said these things he spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he left, washed, and came back seeing. 8 His neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the one who used to sit begging?” 9 Some said, “He’s the one.” Others were saying, “No, but he looks like him.” He kept saying, “I’m the one.” 10 So they asked him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” 11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So when I went and washed I received my sight.” 12 “Where is he?” they asked. “I don’t know,” he said.

3. The Praise

AND AT ONCE- Healed Instantly!

Feet and Ankles

The Medical terms used are pointing to the heels and ankles out of socket

Isaiah 35:6 “6 Then the lame will leap like a deer, and the tongue of the mute will sing for joy, for water will gush in the wilderness, and streams in the desert;”