John Gill's Exposition on Acts 3:8

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And he leaping up, etc.] From off the bed or couch, or ground on which he lay: stood and walked; stood firm and strong upon his feet, and walked about; by which it was abundantly manifest to himself and others, that he had a perfect cure. The Ethiopic version is a very ridiculous one, “and he went with them catching fishes”; as if upon this, before they went into the temple, he and the apostles went a fishing together, which has not the least foundation in the text: and entered with them into the temple; to join with them in divine worship, to acknowledge the goodness of God to him, and to show respect to the instruments he made use of in his cure: and leaping; for joy of the mercy, and that it might appear to all that he was thoroughly cured of his lameness: and thus the prophecy in (<233506>Isaiah 35:6) “then shall the lame man leap as an hart”, was literally fulfilled: and praising God; and not the apostles; for he knew that this was owing to the power of God, and could never have been done by man; though he might not be ungrateful to the instruments.

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