Acts 14:9

He listened as Paul was speaking about the Lord Jesus. Paul looked directly at him and could see in the man’s face that he believed that the Lord Jesus could make him well.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,

In Context

8Once while Paul was preaching to people in Lystra, a man was sitting there who was crippled in his legs. When his mother bore him he had crippled legs, so he was never able to walk.

10So Paul called out to him, “Stand up!” When the man heard that, he immediately jumped up and began to walk normally.

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Cross References

Matthew 9:22Then Jesus turned around to see who had touched him. And when he saw the woman, he said to her, “Be encouraged, dear woman. Because you believed [PRS] that I could heal you, I have healed you.” The woman was healed at that very moment.

Matthew 13:58Jesus did not perform many miracles there because the people did not believe that he was the Messiah.

Mark 1:40One day a man who had a bad skin disease called leprosy came to Jesus. He knelt down in front of Jesus and then he pleaded with him saying, “ Please heal me, because I know you are able to heal me if you want to!”

Mark 2:11“To you I say, ‘Get up! Pick up your sleeping pad! And then go home!’”

Mark 10:52Jesus said to him, “ I am healing you because you believed in me. So you may go home!” He could see immediately. And he went with Jesus along the road.

Matthew Henry on Acts 14:9-19

The Lame Man Healed at Lystra; Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. 8 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: 9 The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed, 10 Said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped and walked. 11 And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the… Read the whole commentary →

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