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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"And as he held Peter and John, all the people came together at the porch that is called Solomon's, greatly wondering." From his good feelings and love towards the Apostles, the lame man would not leave them; perhaps he was thanking them openly, and praising them. "And all the people," it is said, "ran together unto them."
Theophylact of Ohrid
By his own disposition and by his enthusiastic love for the apostles Peter and John, and perhaps also out of a feeling of gratitude toward them or from a desire to bring them greater pleasure, he did not leave their side. As for the fact that this miracle was performed in the temple, this was for greater benefit and salutariness. He was afraid to fall behind them, as he thought that he would be free from his ailment only as long as he held on to and touched them. …
Oecumenius
He held the apostles after the healing, either out of goodwill as weaving a praise for them, and showing them off to all as saviors, or suspecting that, if they were left, they would again be seized by passion. For he thought that he had been freed from the passion only until it seized them and clung to them, especially since Peter, having held him, had therefore healed him.
Western Saints
Bede
All the people ran to them, to the portico called Solomon's. With Israel saved by the apostles, the entire world rushes to the thresholds of the true and peaceful Solomon, of whom it is said: "His government shall increase and peace shall have no end" (Isaiah IX). This is the stone cut from the mountain, which, with the earthly realm of faith's enemy crumbling, alone holds the peaceful dominion through the world (Daniel II).
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