And Peter said to him, " Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Arise and make your bed. " Then he arose immediately.
1. Aeneas - Jesus will heal you.
2. Think about it. If you have been paralyzed for 8 years, you know that you can't just "get up and make your bed."
3. Would you argue? Explain that you can't move? OR - Just try?
4. Aeneas tried - He got up immediately.
ACTS 9:34 iva/tai The verb form that is spelled iatai may be accented either as present tense (iva/tai) or perfect tense (i;atai). The scribe of codex Vaticanus undoubtedly took the form to be the pe...
Verse 34. _JESUS CHRIST MAKETH THEE WHOLE_] Not _Peter_, for _he_ had no power but what was given him from above. And, as an _instrument_, any man could heal with this power as well as Peter; but God...
MAKETH THEE WHOLE - Cures thee. Peter claimed no power to do it himself. Compare Acts 3:6, Acts 3:16; Acts 4:10. MAKE THY BED - This would show that he was truly healed. Compare...
CHAPTER 9 __ 1. The vision of Glory on the road to Damascus (Acts 9:1). 2. Instructions given to Ananias (Acts 9:10). 3. Saul filled with the Spirit, is baptized and preaches that Jesus is the Son...
Æ NEAS. His name shows him to have been probably a Hellenist. This story is modelled on that of the paralytic in Mark 2:1. Many of the words are the same; the case is similar, and only the command to...
SURRENDER (Acts 9:1-9)...
In the course of a tour of the whole area, Peter came down to the saints who lived at Lydda. There he found a man called Aeneas who had been bed-ridden for eight years. He was paralysed. So Peter said...
MAKETH THEE WHOLE. healeth thee. Greek. _iaomai._ See note on Luke 6:17. MAKE THY BED. Literally spread for thyself....
_Jesus Christ maketh thee whole_ As in the cure of the cripple at the Temple-gate (Acts 3:6), the Apostle makes known that he is but the messenger, and that the healer is Christ. We are not told that...
PETER HEALS A PARALYTIC AT LYDDA...
ἸΑ͂ΤΑΊ ΣΕ ἸΗΣΟΥ͂Σ ΧΡΙΣΤΌΣ, _Jesus Christ maketh thee whole_. As in the cure of the cripple at the Temple gate (Acts 3:6), the Apostle makes known that he is but the messenger, and that the healer is C...
_THE MIRACLE AT LYDDA ACTS 9:32-35:_ While Peter was traveling from place to place preaching the gospel he came to Lydda. There he met Aeneas, a man that had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight yea...
ΊΆΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΊΆΟΜΑΙ (G2390) исцелять (GLH). Аористический _praes._ (RWP; RG, 864; BD, 166; VANT, 202-03; но _см._ VA, 55). Если бы ударение ставилось на ΪΑΤΑΙ, форма была бы perf...
ENEAS, JESUS CHRIST MAKETH THEE WHOLE— It is worth our while to observe the great difference there is between the manner in which this miracle is wrought by Peter, and that in which Christ performed h...
See notes on verse 32...
And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately. AND PETER SAID UNTO HIM, ENEAS, JESUS CHRIST MAKETH THEE WHOLE. The immediate prese...
30 Other details of Paul's stay in Jerusalem (not pertinent in this treatise) are interesting. Not only did the brethren lead him away, but the Lord Himself warned him to flee. While he was praying in...
The Apostle healed 'in the name of Jesus.' Jesus healed in His own name, as being Himself the author of the cure....
Activity of Peter at Lydda and Joppa. 32. Throughout all _quarters_] or, 'throughout all the saints.' LYDDA] in the plain of Sharon, about 10 m. SE. of Joppa, on the way to Jerusalem....
SAUL BECOMES A CHRISTIAN 1-30. The Conversion of Saul is to regarded as a miraculous event. The way for it may have been prepared by Stephen's speech, by the spectacle of the constancy of the Christia...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 9 JESUS APPEARS IN FRONT OF SAUL, 9:1-9 V1 Saul was still saying that he would hurt the *Lord’s *disciples. He said that he would kill them. He...
JESUS CHRIST MAKETH THEE WHOLE. — Better, _Jesus the Christ._ We note the same anxiety to disclaim any personal power or holiness as the cause that wrought the supernatural healing as in Acts 3:12; Ac...
_Healing of Aeneas_....
ἰᾶται σε Ἰ.: perhaps a _paronomasia_, Acts 4:30 (see Page, _in loco_); present tense, indicating that the healing was immediately effected, Burton, _N. T. Moods and Tenses_, p. 9; Blass, _Gram._, p. 1...
STRENGTH AND LIFE THROUGH CHRIST Acts 9:32-43 Peter was now free for a visit of apostolic inspection, of which the two incidents here preserved are the only record. Lydda was a village on the great p...
Opposition, the leader of which seems to have been Saul, continued. Armed with letters from the high priest, he attempted to put an end to the Nazarene heresy. It was on his journey with this intent t...
The Growth of the Church and Two of Peter's Miracles After Saul went to Tarsus, Luke reported that a period of peace ensued during which the church in Judea, Galilee and Samaria was strengthened, walk...
And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda. (33) And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight yea...
We are now arrived at a turning-point in the history, not merely of the church, but of the unfolding of the truth of God, and the manifestation of His ways. The death of Stephen, therefore, has in var...
_THE MESSAGE TO ÆNEAS_ ‘And Peter said unto him, Æneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole.’ Acts 9:34 The four Gospels tell us what Christ did up to His Ascension (Acts 1:1). The Acts of the Apostles...
34._Jesus Christ maketh thee whole. _It is certain that the apostles would never have attempted the doing of miracles, unless they had been first certified of the will of God, whereupon the effect did...
A work and a workman of another character begin now to dawn upon the scene. We have seen the inveterate opposition of the heads of Israel to the testimony of the Holy Ghost, their obstinacy in repelli...
AND PETER SAID UNTO HIM, AENEAS, c. He called him by his name, which he might without divine revelation know, though he was a stranger to him, by the people of the house, where he was: JESUS CHRIST M...
And Peter said unto him, Æneas, Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately. Ver. 34. _And Peter said_] After he had prayed for him, likely. It is the prayer of...
_And as Peter passed through all quarters_ Where the disciples that were dispersed had planted churches; _he came to the saints that were at Lydda_ A town of Phœnicia, situated in the tribe of Ephraim...
MAKETH THEE WHOLE; cureth thee. Peter was careful to show that this miracle was wrought not by his power, but by the power of Christ....
AND PETER SAID UNTO HIM, AENEAS, JESUS CHRIST MAKETH THEE WHOLE; ARISE AND MAKE THY BED. AND HE AROSE IMMEDIATELY....
TWO MIRACLES PERFORMED BY PETER. Peter at Lydda:...
Philip the evangelist is now put in the background, as the Spirit of God begins a work of another kind, using a most unexpected workman. Saul was filled with strongest animosity toward the disciples,...
"And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ healeth thee: arise and make thy bed. And straightway he arose" "Peter knew that he could not overcome disease and death by his own authority and power...
32-35 Christians are saints, or holy people; not only the eminent ones, as Saint Peter and Saint Paul, but every sincere professor of the faith of Christ. Christ chose patients whose diseases were in...
JESUS CHRIST MAKETH THEE WHOLE: these words are not a prayer, (though they were not spoken without Peter's lifting up his heart to Christ in prayer), but a promise to this sick man of health and recov...
Acts 9:34 And G2532 Peter G4074 said G2036 (G5627) him G846 Aeneas G132 Jesus G2424 Christ G5547 heals...
‘And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Messiah heals you, arise and spread your mattress.” And immediately he arose.' Peter approaches the paralysed man, and calling him by name, calls on him to aris...
PETER HEALS A PARALYSED MAN AND MINISTERS IN LYDDA (9:32-35). In Acts 2-3 the coming of the life of God and of the Risen Jesus to His people is followed by the ministry to ‘the lame'. Here that sequen...
Acts 9:34. AND PETER SAID ONTO HIM, JESUS CHRIST MAKETH THEE WHOLE. The language of Peter to the palsied sufferer IS very different from his Master's in similar cases. The disciple performed his mirac...
HEALETH (ιατα). Aoristic present middle indicative, heals here and now.MAKE THY BED (στρωσον σεαυτω). First aorist (ingressive) active imperative of στρωννυμ (-υω). Old word with "bed" (κραβαττον...
CONTENTS: Conversion of Saul of Tarsus. Paul preaches and visits Jerusalem and returns to Tarsus. Peter heals Aeneas. Tabitha raised from the dead. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Holy Spirit, Saul, disciples, hi...
Acts 9:1. _Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord._ Not less than two thousand of them, who fell in this storm, were massacred indiscriminately. If what i...
PETER TRAVELED EVERYWHERE. Visiting the communities of Christians in Judea. IN LYDDA. Near Joppa. Here Peter heals a man who had been paralyzed for eight years. Note he credits the healing to Christ....
_And it came to pass, as Peter passed throughout all quarters, he came down also to the saints which dwelt at Lydda._ LYDDA The Lud of the Old Testament (1 Chronicles 8:12; Ezra 2:33; Nehemiah 7:37;...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 9:34 JESUS CHRIST HEALS YOU. See note on 3:6. MAKE YOUR BED probably refers to folding the mat on which he was lying....
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 9:32. LYDDA.—The Old Testament Lod (Nehemiah 7:37; Nehemiah 11:35; 1 Chronicles 8:12), now called Lucid.
EXPOSITION ACTS 9:1 _But _for _and, _A.V.; _breathing _for _breathing out, _A.V.; _threatening _for _threatenings, _A.V. THREATENING AND SLAUGHTER. The phrase ἐμπνέων ἀπειλῆς κ.τ.λ., is rather a...
When Alexander the Great conquered the world, he left pockets of Greek culture throughout the world. So these pockets of Greek culture became very influential. And even though the Roman Empire conquer...
Acts 16:18; Acts 3:12; Acts 3:16; Acts 3:6; Acts 4:10;...
Jesus Christ. But note the article : Jesus the Christ; the Anointed; Messiah. Maketh thee whole [ι α τ α ι σ ε]. Rev., healeth thee. See on Luke 6:19. Make thy bed [σ τ ρ ω σ ο ν σ ε α υ τ ω] Lit., s...
SAUL'S CONVERSION: A PATTERN AND A PROPHECY 1 Timothy 1:15; _with Acts 9:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We marvel, therefore, that what God wrought in Saul's conversion on the Damascus road is as vital a pa...
AMONG THE CHURCHES Acts 9:31 INTRODUCTORY WORDS For the while we turn from Saul and the record of his ministry, and we return to the early Church and her dominant figure, Peter. We ask your attenti...