Peter and John go up to the temple at the hour of prayer. A man who could not walk begs at the Beautiful Gate. Peter looks at him and tells him, in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, to get up and walk. The man stands and walks into the temple, and the people who know him are amazed.
5 words you will really use: they appear in the story and in the exercises, and come back for review in the next stories.
gate
a big door in a wall or a fence, where people go in and out
noun
silver
a shiny gray metal that people use for money and for things of value
noun
bone
one of the hard parts inside the body
noun
raise
to move something or someone up
verb
praise
to say that someone is very good and great
verb
The moments of the story, in the order they happen.
Peter and John go to the temple at the hour of prayer, and a man begs at the Beautiful Gate.
Peter says he has no silver or gold, and tells the man to get up and walk.
Peter raises the man up by the right hand, and the man’s feet and ankle bones receive strength.
The man walks and praises God, and the people know him as the man at the Beautiful Gate.
The verse that closes the story, in the World English Bible. After 4 lessons, this is how you read it: the real text, with nothing simplified.
Acts 3:6 · WEB
But Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
One detail about the scene, with the work it comes from.
When was the hour of prayer? Acts 3:1 calls it the ninth hour. The unfoldingWord Translation Words entry on hour says that the Jews counted daylight hours starting at sunrise, around 6 AM, and gives the ninth hour as an example: around three in the afternoon.
Source: World English Bible · Public domain; Translation Words (en_tw) · CC BY-SA 4.0
First the whole story, in simple English with audio for every sentence. Then 4 short lessons, each with a piece of the story, a tip and exercises. At the end, the Bible verse and a little celebration.
Acts 3:1-10, in the World English Bible: Peter and John at the temple and the man at the Beautiful Gate.
Acts 3:2 says that people laid him daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask for gifts from those who entered the temple.
Acts 3:6 says that Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have, that I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
Peter took the man by the right hand. Acts 3:7 says that Peter raised him up, and that immediately the man’s feet and ankle bones received strength.
The man walked into the temple. Acts 3:9-10 says that all the people saw him walking and praising God, and that they recognized him as the man who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate.
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