Now at Lystra there was a man sitting who could not use his feet. He was crippled from birth and had never walked.
8. A certain man at Lystra. Luke reciteth one miracle which we may think “Probabile est,” it is probable. was one of many; but there was mention made of it alone by reason of the famous event. For we shall see by and by what happened.
This cripple, lame from birth and never able to walk, represents our spiritual impotency until God's grace strengthens us. He heard Paul preach and believed the apostles had divine power to heal him; that faith Paul perceived and acted upon, working a cure that testified to the gospel's power among the Gentiles.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 14:8-18
And there sat a certain man at Lystra,.... 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...