8And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:
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And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. …
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-18)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, Acts 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 spiritual things: they are lame from their birth, till…
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