Acts 9:33

‘And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had kept his bed eight years, for he was paralysed.'

The mention of a specific miracle in the light of the ‘many signs and wonders' performed must always be seen as having a specific purpose. So the point here is that, as at the beginning (Acts 3:1), the lame and paralysed are restored. Here it was Aeneas, and yet we are also to see Aeneas as a picture of mankind, paralysed and awaiting restoration. This was what the continuing ministry of the Apostles was accomplishing, and the stress is on the fact that it was indeed continuing. Nothing could stop the onward movement of the power of the Spirit. Here was another who had been long in need, and now his need was to be met, as was the need of a world which had waited even longer.