Hechos 3:7

7 Entonces Pedro tomó al hombre lisiado de la mano derecha y lo ayudó a levantarse. Y, mientras lo hacía, al instante los pies y los tobillos del hombre fueron sanados y fortalecidos.

Hechos 3:7 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 3:7

And he took him by the right hand
In imitation of Christ, whom he had often seen using the same action on such occasions:

and lift him up;
believing he was cured, and that it might be manifest. The word him is expressed in the Alexandrian copy, and in some others, and in the Oriental versions, which is a supplement in our translation:

and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength;
where, it seems, his lameness lay. The Vulgate Latin renders it, his bases and soles, which may include his legs and thighs, as well as feet; and the Syriac version, "his feet and soles"; and the Arabic version, "his soles, and the muscles adjoining to his heels"; and the Ethiopic version furthest off of all, "he was strengthened in his feet, and in his loins"; his disorder might be of the paralytic kind.

Hechos 3:7 In-Context

5 El hombre lisiado los miró ansiosamente, esperando recibir un poco de dinero,

6 pero Pedro le dijo: «Yo no tengo plata ni oro para ti, pero te daré lo que tengo. En el nombre de Jesucristo de Nazaret,
¡levántate y
camina!».

7 Entonces Pedro tomó al hombre lisiado de la mano derecha y lo ayudó a levantarse. Y, mientras lo hacía, al instante los pies y los tobillos del hombre fueron sanados y fortalecidos.

8 ¡Se levantó de un salto, se puso de pie y comenzó a caminar! Luego entró en el templo con ellos caminando, saltando y alabando a Dios.

9 Toda la gente lo vio caminar y lo oyó adorar a Dios.