In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
8. A certain man at Lystra. Luke reciteth one miracle which we may think “Probabile est,” it is probable. was one of many; but there was mention made of it alone by reason of the famous event. For we shall see by and by what happened.
In these verses we have, I. A miraculous cure wrought by Paul at Lystra upon a cripple that had been lame from his birth, such a one as was miraculously cured by Peter and John, Act 3:2. That introduced the gospel among the Jews, this among the Gentiles; both that and this were designed to represent the impotency of all the children of men in...
Commenting on Acts 14:8-18
And there sat a certain man at Lystra,.... Where the apostle was preaching; and perhaps he sat there to beg, where there was a great concourse of people, and which might be in the open street: this man was impotent in his feet; so weak, as not to be able to walk, and even to stand on them, and therefore is said to sit: being...