And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
And a certain man lame from his mother's womb - and now "above forty years old" (Acts 4:22). As the Lord Jesus had signalized His power by opening the eyes of a man born blind (John 9:1-41), so the "virtue" that had now "gone out of Him" as the glorified Redeemer, and that now rested upon His apostolic witnesses endued with the Spirit, displays itself in this first recorded miracle by the healing of a man lame from his birth.
Was carried, х ebastazeto (G941)] - either 'was wont to be carried,' or 'was in the act of being carried' just at that time: the latter sense is probably meant here.
Whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful. Thus would his lameness be familiar to all the frequenters of the temple. The gate alluded to was probably a two-leaved gate described by Josephus, though not under that name, as the most massive and gorgeous of all the gates, made largely of Corinthian brass, and plated over with gold and silver, fifty cubits high by forty broad (Jewish Wars 5: 5, 3; and Antiquities 15: 11, 3).
To ask alms of them that entered into the temple;