Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 3:6

"But Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but what I have, that give I thee. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk." — Acts 3:6 (ASV)

Silver and gold have I none.—The narrative of Acts 2:45 shows that the Apostles were treasurers and stewards of the sums committed to their charge by the generous self-denial of the community. Therefore, we must assume either that the words meant they had no silver or gold with them at the time, or that, as distributors of charitable funds, they felt obligated to distribute what was given to them in trust in this way for the benefit of members of the community of which they were officers, and for them only. Obeying their Lord’s commands (Matthew 10:9), they had no money they could call their own to give to those who asked them. But they could give more than money.

In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth...—The full trust with which the words were spoken was in part a simple act of faith in their Master’s promise (Mark 16:18) and in part the result of past experience in exercising similar powers (Mark 6:13).

The Name in which they spoke could hardly have been new to the cripple. Among the beggars at the Temple gate, there had once been the blind man who received his sight at the pool of Siloam (John 9:7–8). The healing of the cripple at Bethesda (John 5:2, 14) could scarcely have been unknown to this sufferer from a similar infirmity.

What made the call to rise and walk a test of faith was that, only a few weeks before, that Name had been seen on the superscription over the cross on which He who bore it had been condemned to die as one who deceived the people (John 7:12).