SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:5
Entonces l les estuvo atento, esperando recibir de ellos algo.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 3:5
Verse 5. Expecting to receive something of them.] Because it was a constant custom for all who entered the temple to carry money with them to give to the treasury, or to the poor, or to both. It was on this ground that the friends of the lame man laid him at the gate of the temple, as this was the most likely place to receive alms.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 5. And he gave heed unto them , etc.] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-11 - The apostles and the first believers attended the temple worship at the hours of prayer. Peter and John seem to have been led by a Divin direction, to work a miracle on a man above forty years old, who ha been a cripple from his birth. Peter, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth bade him rise up and walk. Thus, if we would attempt to good purpos the healing of men's souls, we must go forth in the name and power of Jesus Christ, calling on helpless sinners to arise and walk in the way of holiness, by faith in Him. How sweet the thought to our souls, tha in respect to all the crippled faculties of our fallen nature, the nam of Jesus Christ of Nazareth can make us whole! With what holy joy an rapture shall we tread the holy courts, when God the Spirit causes u to enter therein by his strength!
Greek Textus Receptus
ο 3588 T-NSM δε 1161 CONJ επειχεν 1907 5707 V-IAI-3S αυτοις 846 P-DPM προσδοκων 4328 5723 V-PAP-NSM τι 5100 X-ASN παρ 3844 PREP αυτων 846 P-GPM λαβειν 2983 5629 V-2AAN
Robertson's NT Word Studies
3:5 {Gave heed unto them} (epeicen autois). Imperfect active of epecw, to hold to. For the idiom with ton noun understood see #7:14; 1Ti 4:16. He held his eyes right on Peter and John with great eagerness "expecting to receive something" (prosdokwn ti labein). He took Peter's invitation as a promise of a large gift.
