Rise Up and Walk  Every day the people carried to the temple a
certain man who had been crippled since birth. They laid him at
the gate so he could ask those who entered the temple for alms,
or money.  One day Peter and John, who had been disciples of
Jesus while He lived on earth, went together to the temple at
the hour of prayer. When the crippled man saw them, he called
out.  Peter and John stopped. They turned and saw how crippled
the man was. Peter said to him, “Look at us!”  The man looked up
at these disciples of Jesus, expecting to receive a coin from
them.   Then Peter reached down and took the man by the right
hand and lifted him up. Immediately strength came into the man’s
feet and ankles that had been useless all forty years of his
life. He stood up and walked and entered into the temple,
leaping and praising God.  The people who saw the cripple
walking were amazed because he had always sat at the gate of the
temple and begged. They could not understand what had happened,
so they crowded around Pe