Acts 14:10

10 said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!" And he leaped up and began walking.

Acts 14:10 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 14:10

Said with a loud voice
Not only that the man, but that all might hear and attend to the miracle about to be wrought:

stand upright on thy feet;
in five of Beza's manuscripts, and in other copies, and in the Complutensian edition, and in the Syriac version, this clause is introduced with these words, "I say unto thee, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ"; which is much such a form that Peter used, ( Acts 3:6 ) whereby the virtue of the miracle is ascribed to Christ, and not assumed by the apostle:

and he leaped and walked;
he sprung up directly from his seat, and leaped about for joy, and walked as well as any other man could.

Acts 14:10 In-Context

8 And in Lystra a certain man was sitting powerless in his feet, lame from {birth}, who had never walked.

9 This man listened [while] Paul was speaking. {Paul}, looking intently at him and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

10 said with a loud voice, "Stand upright on your feet!" And he leaped up and began walking.

11 And [when] the crowds saw what Paul had done, they raised their voices in the Lycaonian language, saying, "The gods have become like men [and] have come down to us!"

12 And they began calling Barnabas Zeus and Paul Hermes, because he was the {principal speaker}.

Footnotes

• [a]. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began walking")