Acts 3:5
So the man gave them his attention, expecting to receive something from them.
BSB
ASV
And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something from them.
KJV
And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.
And he gave heed unto them,.... 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.
As every one hath received the gift, so let him minister it. Let us now see how the cure was wrought. [1.] Christ sent his word, and healed him ( Ps. cvii. 20 ); for healing grace is given by the word of Christ; this is the vehicle of the healing virtue derived from Christ.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.