Perceiving that he had. It does not appear that St. Paul had any previous conversation with the man he healed on this occasion, or demanded from him any testimony of his faith. But he saw that he had faith, perhaps by inspiration, or by the confidence and eagerness the lame man may have shewn in his countenance and actions. (Calmet, &c.)
ACTS 14:8-9 Several Western witnesses introduce a variety of expansions. At the close of ver. Acts 14:8 ith adds (according to Berger) the phrase _[habens ti]morem dei_ (“having the fear of God”) [Bu...
ACTS 14:8 avdu,natoj evn Lu,stroij The omission of the phrase evn Lu,stroij in D E copsa is to be accounted for either because it was felt to be unnecessary owing to its presence in the immediately p...
Verse Acts 14:8. _IMPOTENT IN HIS FEET_] αδυνατος τοις ποσιν, He had no muscular power, and probably his ancle bones were dislocated; or he had what is commonly termed _club feet_; this is the more li...
AND THERE SAT - There dwelt, Matthew 9:16; Acts 18:11 (margin). The word “sat,” however, indicates his usual posture, his helpless condition. Such persons commonly sat by the wayside, or in some publi...
CHAPTER 14 _ 1. The work in Iconium and the persecution of the Apostles (Acts 14:1)._ 2. In Derbe and Lystra; the Impotent Man healed (Acts 14:7). 3. The Stoning of Paul and further ministries (Act...
LYSTRA. Lystra, 25 miles SW. of Iconium, 10 miles off the trade route, in a secluded glen. Lystra and Derbe were the two cities of the Lycaonian region of Galatia; Roman influence was strong there, an...
There was a man who sat in Lystra who had no power in his feet. He had been a cripple from his birth and he had never walked. He was in the habit of listening to Paul speaking. Paul fixed his gaze on...
ON TO ICONIUM (Acts 14:1-7)...
CERTAIN. Greek. _tis._ App-123. MAN. Greek. _aner._ AT. in. Greek. _en._ BEING. Texts omit. A CRIPPLE. lame. FROM. Greek. _ek._ App-104. NEVER. Greek. _oudepote._ HAD. Texts omit....
Cure of a Cripple at Lystra. The heathen people regard the Apostles as gods 8. _And there sat a certain man_ Perhaps this cripple, like that other in Jerusalem (Acts 3:2), was brought by his friends t...
ὑπάρχων omitted with אABCDE. Unrepresented in _Vulg_. 8. ἘΝ ΛΎΣΤΡΟΙΣ, _at Lystra_. This place lay almost south from Iconium, if the site generally assigned to it, at the foot of the _Karadagh_, be the...
CURE OF A CRIPPLE AT LYSTRA. THE HEATHEN PEOPLE REGARD THE APOSTLES AS GODS....
_PAUL AND BARNABAS IN LYSTRA ACTS 14:8-17:_ At Lystra the apostles healed a lame man. He had never walked. This miracle was very much like the one in Acts 3:1-26. The man listened to the preaching. As...
ΑΔΎΝΑΤΟΣ (G102) бессильный, слабый, хилый. О медицинском использовании этого термина _см._ MLL, 46. ΈΚΆΘΗΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΚΆΘΗΜΑΙ (G2521) сидеть. Обыденное значение _impf._, "он имел обы...
BEING A CRIPPLE FROM HIS MOTHER'S WOMB,— This circumstance serves greatly to illustrate the miracle; for weaknesses born with a person, and continuing inveterate to a more advanced age, hardly ever gi...
IN LYSTRA. Acts 14:6 b - Acts 14:20. a. General statement. Acts 14:6 b, Acts 14:7....
8-12. The district of Lycaonia, into which the apostles had fled, was an interior district of Asia Minor, lying north of the Taurus Mountains, but of very indefinite boundaries. The exact situation of...
And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: AND THERE SAT A CERTAIN MAN AT LYSTRA, IMPOTENT IN HIS FEET, BEING A CRIPP...
6 Lystra seems to be the first place Paul preached without first proclaiming to the Jews in the synagogue, for it seems that there were not enough Jews to have a place of worship. Hence this is the fi...
A CRIPPLE] Probably this man had learnt from the Jews the worship of the true God (D says that he was 'in the fear of God'), and consequently he had received some preparation for the gospel message. T...
FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (CONTINUED) 1-7. Paul and Barnabas at Iconium. The gospel meets with great success among both Jews and Gentiles in this populous city, and miracles are wrought in confirmatio...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 14 PAUL AND BARNABAS IN ICONIUM, 14:1-7 V1 What happened in Pisidian Antioch also happened in Iconium. Paul and Barnabas went to the *synagogue...
BEING A CRIPPLE FROM HIS MOTHER’S WOMB. — We note, as in Acts 3:2; Acts 9:33, the characteristic care to record the duration of the infirmity which was supernaturally cured....
ἐν Λύστροις : here neuter plural, and not as in Acts 14:6; Acts 14:21; feminine. Clemen, p. 115, and Jüngst, p. 131, see a proof in this that 8 18, or 21 a, was interpolated by a redactor. But Hilgenf...
VARYING TREATMENT OF THE MESSAGE Acts 14:1-13 From Antioch the Apostles passed to Iconium, the capital of Lycaonia. It is most illuminating to note the source of their success: _The Lord bore witness...
In Iconium there was largely a repetition of the experiences at Antioch. Becoming aware of the growing hostility, Paul and Barnabas passed on, and came to Lystra. There is a marked difference between...
Idolatry Confronted at Lystra Paul and Barnabas next arrived at Lystra, some 18 miles to the east. There was apparently no synagogue there, but there was a man who had been crippled since birth and ha...
(3) And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: (3) It is an old subtlety of the devil, either to cause the faithful ser...
HEALING OF THE CRIPPLE AT LYSTRA 8-10. The imperfect tense here shows that they had been preaching some time at Lystra. Meanwhile this poor cripple, who, the Greek says, had no power to use his feet,...
And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: (9) The same heard Paul speak: who steadfastly beholding him, and perceiving...
We now enter on the missionary journeys, as they are called, of the apostle Paul. The work, under the Spirit, opens to the glory of the Lord. Not merely are Gentiles met in grace and brought into the...
− 8._A certain man at Lystra. _Luke reciteth one miracle which we may think − (14) 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 wha...
Their missionary labours continue in Iconium with the same opposition from the Jews who, incapable themselves of the work, stir up the Gentiles against those who are performing it. As long as it was o...
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 ma...
And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: Ver. 8. _And there sat a certain man_] This was (likely) one of those many m...
_And there sat_, &c. To the general account of the apostle's labours given above, the historian here subjoins a particular relation of some memorable events which happened at Lystra. _There sat a man...
A miracle and its effect upon the people:...
AND THERE SAT A CERTAIN MAN AT LYSTRA, IMPOTENT IN HIS FEET, BEING A CRIPPLE FROM HIS MOTHER'S WOMB, WHO NEVER HAD WALKED....
Iconium was also in Asia Minor: here they entered the synagogue and the Spirit of God gave them grace to so speak as to vitally influence a great number, both of Jews and Gentiles, to believe the gosp...
AND IN LYSTRA A CERTAIN MAN WITHOUT STRENGTH IN HIS FEET WAS SITTING, A CRIPPLE FROM HIS MOTHER ' S WOMB, WHO HAD NEVER WALKED. 1. As they enter Lystra, they see a man - a cripple, never able to walk...
Compare this man to the man mentioned in Acts 3:1-11. "Like the man at the Gate Beautiful, this man at Lystra was one whose history from infancy was well known" (Reese p. 502)....
8-18 All things are possible to those that believe. When we have faith, that most precious gift of God, we shall be delivered from the spiritual helplessness in which we were born, and from the domin...
Such defects as are from nature, are incurable by art, and only to be helped immediately by the God of nature. WHO NEVER HAD WALKED; this is observed and enlarged upon, to make the miracle the more ap...
8-12. The district of Lycaonia, into which the apostles had fled, was an interior district of Asia Minor, lying north of the Taurus Mountains, but of very indefinite boundaries. The exact situation of...
Acts 14:8 And G2532 in G1722 Lystra G3082 certain G5100 man G435 strength G102 feet G4228 sitting G2521 ...
‘And at Lystra there sat a certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who had never walked, the same heard Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had f...
THE MINISTRY AT LYSTRA (14:8-20A). A description is now given of the rather colourful events that occurred during their ministry in Lystra. These are on top of the fact that they proclaimed the Good N...
Acts 14:8. AND THERE SAT A CERTAIN MAN AT LYSTRA, IMPOTENT IN HIS FEET. The incident here related was evidently no very unusual one in the life of these first great missionaries of the faith. But this...
AT LYSTRA (εν Λυστροις). Neuter plural as in Acts 16:2; 2 Timothy 3:11 while feminine singular in Acts 14:6; Acts 14:21;...
CONTENTS: Work of the Gospel at Iconium, Derbe, Lystra. An impotent man at Lystra healed. Paul stoned. Elders appointed in the churches. CHARACTERS: God, Paul, Barnabas, impotent man, priest of Jupit...
Acts 14:1. _It came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the jews._ St. Luke makes here a great leap, and is very laconic, merely naming Perga and Attalia. This great...
THERE WAS A MAN. Acts 14:3 shows us how many miracles were done to prove the Good News to be true. This one shows us something of the attitude and humility of the apostles. HE LISTENED TO PAUL'S WORDS...
_And there sat a certain man at Lystra._ PAUL AND BARNABAS IN LYSTRA I. The incident. 1. The case of the cripple resembles that of the man at the gate Beautiful; and a particular statement of it is...
_And it came to pass in Iconium._ ICONIUM A considerable city of Asia Minor, generally considered as belonging to Lycaonia. It lay in a fertile plain at the foot of Taurus, on the great line of commu...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 14:8 Lystra was populated mainly by Gentiles and had no synagogue. The ministry of Paul and Barnabas there centered around the healing of a lame man. ⇐...
_HOMILETICAL ANALYSIS_.—_Acts 14:8_ Paul and Barnabas at Lystra; or, the Gospel among Barbarians I. THE MIRACLE AT LYSTRA.— 1. The _subject_. “A certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his...
EXPOSITION ACTS 14:1 _Entered _for _went both, _A.V.; _Jews _for _the Jews, _A.V.; _and _for _and also, _A.V.; Greeks for _the Greeks, _A.V. Observe how in every case Greeks are found attending the s...
Paul and Barnabas, in carrying the Gospel, have come into the uncharted territories as far as the Gospel is concerned into Asia Minor. They came from Cyprus to the area that is now known as Turkey. Th...
Acts 3:2; Acts 4:9; John 5:3; John 5:5; John 5:7;...
Impotent [α δ υ ν α τ ο ς]. The almost universal meaning of the word in the New Testament is impossible (see Matthew 19:26; Hebrews 6:4, etc.). The sense of weak or impotent occurs only here and Roman...
PREACHING BY THE WAY Acts 14:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS As we open the 14th chapter of Acts, we find Paul and Barnabas still traveling together and entering into Iconium. It is our purpose today to cover...
Here we have an account of the fifth journey which the apostles Barnabas and Paul undertook in their travels to plant and propagate the Christian faith; and that was at Lystra and Derbe. Here their fi...