Acts 14:8

8 There was a man in Lystra who couldn't walk. He sat there, crippled since the day of his birth.

Acts 14:8 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 14:8

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 a cripple from his mother's womb;
he was born lame, as was the man cured by Peter, ( Acts 3:2 )

who never had walked;
these circumstances are mentioned, to show that his case was incurable by any human art, and to illustrate the following miracle.

Acts 14:8 In-Context

6 they escaped as best they could to the next towns - Lyconia, Lystra, Derbe, and that neighborhood -

7 but then were right back at it again, getting out the Message. Gods or Men?

8 There was a man in Lystra who couldn't walk. He sat there, crippled since the day of his birth.

9 He heard Paul talking, and Paul, looking him in the eye, saw that he was ripe for God's work, ready to believe.

10 So he said, loud enough for everyone to hear, "Up on your feet!" The man was up in a flash - jumped up and walked around as if he'd been walking all his life.