The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I do not have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but [just] when I am about to enter [it] someone else goes down [into the water] before me.”
Acts 14:8 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) At Lystra they met a certain man sitting [on the street] who had a crippling handicap in his feet which he had suffered since birth. [It was so severe] he was never able to walk. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Now at Lystra a man sat who found it impossible to use his feet, for he was a cripple from birth and had never walked. American Standard Version (1901) And at Lystra there sat a certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked. Common English Bible In Lystra there was a certain man who lacked strength in his legs. He had been crippled since birth and had never walked. Sitting there, he Catholic Public Domain Version This man heard Paul speaking. And Paul, gazing at him intently, and perceiving that he had faith, so that he might be healed, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version This same heard Paul speaking. Who looking upon him, and seeing that he had faith to be healed, |
The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I do not have anyone to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but [just] when I am about to enter [it] someone else goes down [into the water] before me.”
When they had preached the good news to that town, and had led many to become disciples, they returned to Lystra, [then] to Derbe, and [then on] to Antioch [in Pisidia].
Paul and Barnabas found out about it and escaped to the towns of Lystra and Derbe, in the province of Lycaonia, and elsewhere in the vicinity.
When Paul came to Derbe and [then] to Lystra, he met a certain disciple named Timothy, whose mother was a Jewish believer, but his father was a Greek [i.e., Gentile].
[On their way] they met a certain man who had been crippled from birth. Every day he had been carried [by friends] and placed at the “Beautiful Gate” [as it was called] of the Temple [enclosure] where he begged for money from those entering the Temple.
if we are being questioned today concerning how this man with a serious handicap was made completely well,
persecutions and sufferings. You know what kind of things happened to me at Antioch, Iconium and Lystra [See Acts 13:13-14:23], and what [severe] persecutions I experienced [there]. But the Lord rescued me from all of them.