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Acts 14:8

And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:

KJV

Καί τις ἀνὴρ ἐν Λύστροις ἀδύνατος τοῖς ποσὶν ἐκάθητο, χωλὸς ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐτοῦ, ὃς οὐδέποτε περιεπάτησεν.

Greek NT

Hic audivit Paulum loquentem. Qui intuitus eum, et videns quia fidem haberet ut salvus fieret,

Vulgate

And at Lystra there sat a certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.

ASV

This same heard Paul speaking. Who looking upon him and seeing that he had faith to be healed,

Douay-Rheims

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In this verse

Places Lystra

In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Λύστρα
lustra
noun · 6×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
κάθημαι
kathemai
verb · 89×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κοιλία
koilia
noun · 23×
μήτηρ
meter
noun · 84×
οὐδέποτε
oudepote
adverb · 16×
περιπατέω
peripateo
verb · 94×
πούς
pous
noun · 91×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
χωλός
cholos
adjective · 14×
ἀδύνατος
adunatos
adjective · 10×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
o
article · 19778×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Textual variants

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ἀδύνατος ἐν Λύστροις | WH/NIV: ἀδύνατος ἐν Λύστροις | Treg/RP: ἐν Λύστροις ἀδύνατος
  • ἀδύνατος ἐν ΛύστροιςSBLGNT
  • ἀδύνατος ἐν ΛύστροιςWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐν Λύστροις ἀδύνατοςTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: αὐτοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: αὐτοῦ | RP: + ὑπάρχων
  • αὐτοῦSBLGNT
  • αὐτοῦWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + ὑπάρχωνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: περιεπάτησεν | WH/Treg/NIV: περιεπάτησεν | RP: περιπεπατήκει
  • περιεπάτησενSBLGNT
  • περιεπάτησενWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • περιπεπατήκειRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Miracle

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 3:2 — And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
  • Acts 3:2 — And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
  • Acts 4:9 — If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
  • Acts 5:12 — And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.
  • Acts 8:7 — For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.
  • John 5:3 — In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
  • John 5:5 — And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
  • John 5:7 — The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.
  • John 9:1 — And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
  • Luke 7:22 — Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised,
  • Mark 16:20 — And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
  • Matt 9:5 — For whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk?
  • Matt 11:5 — The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
  • Matt 15:31 — Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.