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Acts 14:8-10
The story pauses to spotlight a public healing, describing Paul’s attention, the man’s response, and the sudden visible change.
Meaning in context
A man in Lystra is introduced as unable to use his feet and as having never walked, emphasizing a lifelong condition.
He listens while Paul speaks; Paul fixes attention on him and speaks in response to what he observes.
Paul gives a loud, direct command to stand; the man immediately rises, leaps, and begins walking, presenting an observable change.
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A cripple healed at Lystra
The story pauses to spotlight a public healing, describing Paul’s attention, the man’s response, and the sudden visible change.
Movement
From Jerusalem to Rome
Artifact
Mission routes and apostolic witness
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Apostolic Age
Acts context: AD 33 - AD 100
Biblical Timeline
Apostolic Age
Acts context
Apostolic Age / AD 33 - AD 100
Acts context is set in the apostolic age, where The early church and the writing of the New Testament.
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Thesis
The story pauses to spotlight a public healing, describing Paul’s attention, the man’s response, and the sudden visible change.
Plain Meaning
A man in Lystra is introduced as unable to use his feet and as having never walked, emphasizing a lifelong condition.
He listens while Paul speaks; Paul fixes attention on him and speaks in response to what he observes.
Paul gives a loud, direct command to stand; the man immediately rises, leaps, and begins walking, presenting an observable change.
Literary Context
This episode sits in Luke’s travel narrative of Paul and Barnabas in Lycaonia. It follows their departure from Iconium and sets up the crowd’s interpretation and the escalating events that immediately follow in the same city context (Acts 14:11–20).
Historical Context
Lystra was a small town within Rome’s provincial system in Asia Minor, where local languages and customs existed alongside wider Greek public culture. A well-known disabled resident would make any sudden change highly visible, and public speech in open settings could rapidly draw a reactive crowd.
Theological Significance
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