Actes 3:8

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

Actes 3:8 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 3:8

And he leaping up
From off the bed or couch, or ground on which he lay:

stood and walked;
stood firm and strong upon his feet, and walked about; by which it was abundantly manifest to himself and others, that he had a perfect cure. The Ethiopic version is a very ridiculous one, "and he went with them catching fishes"; as if upon this, before they went into the temple, he and the apostles went a fishing together, which has not the least foundation in the text:

and entered with them into the temple;
to join with them in divine worship, to acknowledge the goodness of God to him, and to show respect to the instruments he made use of in his cure:

and leaping;
for joy of the mercy, and that it might appear to all that he was thoroughly cured of his lameness: and thus the prophecy in ( Isaiah 35:6 ) "then shall the lame man leap as an hart", was literally fulfilled:

and praising God;
and not the apostles; for he knew that this was owing to the power of God, and could never have been done by man; though he might not be ungrateful to the instruments.

Actes 3:8 In-Context

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.

10 Et ils reconnurent que c'était le même qui se tenait à la belle porte du temple pour demander l'aumône; et ils furent remplis d'étonnement et d'admiration de ce qui lui était arrivé.