Atti 14:8

8 Or in Listra c’era un certo uomo, impotente nei piedi, che stava sempre a sedere, essendo zoppo dalla nascita, e non aveva mai camminato.

Atti 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.

Atti 14:8 In-Context

6 questi, conosciuta la cosa, se ne fuggirono nelle città di Licaonia, Listra e Derba e nel paese d’intorno;

7 e quivi si misero ad evangelizzare.

8 Or in Listra c’era un certo uomo, impotente nei piedi, che stava sempre a sedere, essendo zoppo dalla nascita, e non aveva mai camminato.

9 Egli udì parlare Paolo, il quale, fissati in lui gli occhi, e vedendo che avea fede da esser sanato,

10 disse ad alta voce: Lèvati ritto in piè. Ed egli saltò su, e si mise a camminare.