Acts 3:5

5 and he was giving heed to them, looking to receive something from them;

Acts 3:5 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 3:5

And he gave heed unto them
Or "he looked at them", as the Syriac version renders it, as they bid him: he was not only attentive to them in his mind, but he directed his eyes towards them, and looked wistly at them. This clause is left out in the Ethiopic version.

Expecting to receive something of them;
not a cure for his lameness, which he little thought of, but some money, as an alms.

Acts 3:5 In-Context

3 who, having seen Peter and John about to go into the temple, was begging to receive a kindness.

4 And Peter, having looked stedfastly toward him with John, said, `Look toward us;'

5 and he was giving heed to them, looking to receive something from them;

6 and Peter said, `Silver and gold I have none, but what I have, that I give to thee; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and be walking.'

7 And having seized him by the right hand, he raised [him] up, and presently his feet and ankles were strengthened,