<p>3:9 <i>And all the people saw him walking and praising God</i>- This is twice emphasized (:8). Luke has used the very same phrase four times in his Gospel, regarding praise of the Lord Jesus (Lk. 2:13,20; 19:37; 24:53). Luke's Gospel was volume 1 compared to his volume 2, the Acts of the Apostles. But he develops the theme that the acts of the apostles are effectively the acts of the risen Lord Jesus (see on Acts 1:1). And so this kind of device is typical of Luke- things he ascribes to the Lord Jesus in his Gospel he applies to the work of the believers in Him in Acts. The man's response, &quot;praising God&quot;, was exactly the response of people to the historical Jesus. It was as if through Peter's work, the Lord Jesus was manifested. See on 3:10 <em>Wonder</em> and 3:11 <em>The portico called Solomon's</em>.</p>