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Apostelgeschichte 14:8

Listen to Apostelgeschichte 14:8
8 Und es war ein Mann zu Lystra, der mußte sitzen; denn er hatte schwache Füße und war lahm von Mutterleibe, der noch nie gewandelt hatte.

Apostelgeschichte 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.

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Apostelgeschichte 14:8 In-Context

6 wurden sie des inne und entflohen in die Städte des Landes Lykaonien, gen Lystra und Derbe, und in die Gegend umher
7 und predigten daselbst das Evangelium.
8 Und es war ein Mann zu Lystra, der mußte sitzen; denn er hatte schwache Füße und war lahm von Mutterleibe, der noch nie gewandelt hatte.
9 Der hörte Paulus reden. Und als dieser ihn ansah und merkte, daß er glaubte, ihm möchte geholfen werden,
10 sprach er mit lauter Stimme: Stehe aufrecht auf deine Füße! Und er sprang auf und wandelte.
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