The invalid answered Him, “Sir, I have nobody to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I’m trying to get in, somebody else steps down before me!”
Acts 14:8 - Tree of Life Version Now a man was sitting in Lystra without strength in his feet, lame from birth, who had never walked. 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 invalid answered Him, “Sir, I have nobody to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I’m trying to get in, somebody else steps down before me!”
After proclaiming the Good News to that city and making many disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch.
But they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and the surrounding countryside.
Now Paul came to Derbe and Lystra. There was a disciple there named Timothy, son of a woman who was a Jewish believer and a Greek father,
A man lame from birth was being carried—every day they used to put him at the Temple gate called Beautiful, so he could beg for tzadakah from those entering the Temple.
If we are on trial today for a mitzvah done for a sick man, as to how this fellow was healed,
as well as persecutions and sufferings that happened to me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! And the Lord rescued me from them all!