And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked:
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
And there sat - There dwelt, Mat 9:16; Act 18:11 (margin). The word “sat,” however, indicates his usual posture, his helpless condition. Such persons commonly sat by the wayside, or in some public…
Adam Clarke
Impotent in his feet - Αδυνατος τοις ποσιν, He had no muscular power, and probably his ancle bones were dislocated; or he had what is commonly termed club feet; this is the more likely, as he is said…
In these verses we have,
I. A miraculous cure wrought by Paul at Lystra upon a cripple that had been lame from his birth, such a one as was miraculously cured by Peter and John, Act 3:2. That…
Cambridge Bible
Cure of a Cripple at Lystra. The heathen people regard the Apostles as gods
8. And there sat a certain man Perhaps this cripple, like that other in Jerusalem (Act 3:2), was brought by his friends to…