# General Information:
This verse gives background information about the lame man. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background]])
# a man lame from birth was being carried every day to the Beautiful Gate of the temple
This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "Every day, people carried a certain man, lame from birth, and laid him near the Beautiful gate" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
# lame
unable to walk