Actes 3:7

7 Et l'ayant pris par la main droite, il le leva; et à l'instant la plante de ses pieds et ses chevilles devinrent fermes;

Actes 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.

Actes 3:7 In-Context

5 Et il les regardait attentivement, s'attendant à recevoir quelque chose d'eux.

6 Alors Pierre lui dit: Je n'ai ni argent, ni or; mais ce que j'ai, je te le donne; au nom de Jésus de Nazareth, lève-toi et marche.

7 Et l'ayant pris par la main droite, il le leva; et à l'instant la plante de ses pieds et ses chevilles devinrent fermes;

8 Et sautant, il se tint debout, et marcha, et il entra avec eux dans le temple, marchant, sautant et louant Dieu.

9 Et tout le peuple le vit qui marchait et qui louait Dieu.