And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed.” And immediately he rose.
Peter would never have spoken these words unless he knew the will of God beforehand; the apostles had no power to heal whom they pleased, but only what Christ approved. The Spirit directed his tongue and moved his heart by secret inspiration. Notice how Peter names Christ alone as the healer, making himself only the minister. That Aeneas rose immediately and made his own bed proves the miracle complete: eight years of total paralysis, yet instant and total recovery.
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Peter's work was not to settle in one place but to visit many churches, confirming doctrine, conferring the Holy Ghost, and ordaining ministers. He went about doing good like his Master, always on the move, yet Jerusalem remained his head-quarters. The saints are not a few eminent ones but every sincere professor of Christ's faith.
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Commenting on Acts 9:32-35
And all that dwelt at Lydda and Saron,.... Saron, which is here joined to Lydda, is the name of a fruitful country on the borders of the Mediterranean sea, between Joppa and Caesarea, beginning at Lydda. There were two countries in the land of Israel called Saron, as Jerom observes (n); there was one between Mount Tabor, and the lake of Tiberias; and there was...