The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.”
Acts 14:8 - New Revised Standard Version In Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet and had never walked, for he had been crippled from birth. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.”
After they had proclaimed the good news to that city and had made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, then on to Iconium and Antioch.
the apostles learned of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding country;
Paul went on also to Derbe and to Lystra, where there was a disciple named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer; but his father was a Greek.
And a man lame from birth was being carried in. People would lay him daily at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those entering the temple.
if we are questioned today because of a good deed done to someone who was sick and are asked how this man has been healed,
my persecutions and suffering the things that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.