John Gill's Exposition on Acts 14:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And there sat a certain man at Lystra, etc.] 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 man was impotent in his feet; so weak, as not to be able to walk, and even to stand on them, and therefore is said to sit: being a cripple from his mother’s womb; he was born lame, as was the man cured by Peter, (<440302>Acts 3:2) who never had walked; these circumstances are mentioned, to show that his case was incurable by any human art, and to illustrate the following miracle.

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