Acts 3 Summary - 5 Minute Bible Study

Acts 3 in 5 Minutes

WHEN:

• The events of Acts 3 occurred in approximately 30 AD.

CHARACTERS:

• Peter – An Apostle, the brother of Andrew.

• John – An Apostle, the brother of James.

• Lame Man – A man who couldn’t walk who sat at the Temple every day asking for alms.

• Crowd of Jews – After witnessing a miracle, a group of Jews gathered around Peter and John.

WHERE:

• The events of chapter 3 occurred in Jerusalem, specifically at the Temple.

OUTLINE:

• -        PETER AND JOHN HEAL A LAME MAN (3:1-10):

  • John and Peter visited the Temple and a lame beggar asked them for charity.

  • Peter told him they didn’t have any money but would give him something better.

  • Peter healed the man’s legs in the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

  • The man went leaping and worshipping into the Temple and was recognized by many of the Jews who frequented the Temple.

• PETER PREACHES TO A CROWD IN THE TEMPLE (3:11-26):

  • Those who witnessed the miracles were astonished and many of them gathered around Peter and John.

  • Peter told the people the power they had just witnessed was not his but that of Jesus, the Christ, who they had recently rejected and killed on the cross.

  • The people killed Jesus because of their ignorance, but in doing so, they fulfilled the word’s of the prophets that the Christ would suffer.

  • Peter told the people to repent so their sins could be “blotted out.”

  • He told them Moses had prophesied about the Messiah in Deuteronomy 18:18-19.

  • He told them Jesus was the fulfillment of the promise God made to Abraham that in his offspring all the nations of the earth would be blessed (Genesis 22:18).

  • Jesus was the blessing all the Jews didn’t know they needed; Peter helped them understand by connecting Jesus’ life to the ancient promises of God.

APPLICATION:

• Our service for God is for God’s glory, not ours.

• Peter shows that he understood this when he deflected the attention he received on to Jesus.

• When we receive attention for doing something good in our Christian walk, we need to use it as an opportunity to point people to Jesus.

• Don’t use your good works to steal glory from God.

• We are God’s servants, bought by the blood of Jesus, and we don’t have anything to boast about, other than the greatness of the God who saved us!