Atti 9:34

34 E Pietro gli disse: Enea, Gesù Cristo ti sana; lèvati e rifatti il letto. Ed egli subito si levò.

Atti 9:34 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 9:34

And Peter said unto him, Aeneas
He called him by his name, which he might without divine revelation know, though he was a stranger to him, by the people of the house, where he was:

Jesus Christ maketh thee whole;
Peter knew, by some secret impulse upon his mind, that Christ would cure this man by him as an instrument at this time, and therefore said these words; not as a prayer, as some render them, "may Jesus Christ heal thee", though was it so, it was a prayer of faith; but as a promise that he would, or rather as a declaration of the then present exertion of his power to heal him; which he ascribes not to himself, but to Christ, in whose name, and by whose power the apostles wrought all their miracles; ( Acts 3:12 Acts 3:14 ) ( Acts 4:9 Acts 4:10 ) "arise, and make thy bed"; which would be a full demonstration that he was perfectly whole:

and he arose immediately;
and also, no doubt, made his bed, as the man at Bethesda's pool was bid by Christ, to take up his bed and carry it, as a proof of his soundness.

Atti 9:34 In-Context

32 Or avvenne che Pietro, andando qua e là da tutti, venne anche ai santi che abitavano in Lidda.

33 E quivi trovò un uomo, chiamato Enea, che già da otto anni giaceva in un lettuccio, essendo paralitico.

34 E Pietro gli disse: Enea, Gesù Cristo ti sana; lèvati e rifatti il letto. Ed egli subito si levò.

35 E tutti gli abitanti di Lidda e del pian di Saron lo videro e si convertirono al Signore.

36 Or in Ioppe v’era una certa discepola, chiamata Tabita, il che, interpretato, vuol dire Gazzella. Costei abbondava in buone opere e faceva molte elemosine.