“And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:”
In Lystra there sat a man who was lame from birth and had never walked — the healing narrative introduces a new dimension: signs performed not in synagogues but in pagan contexts, before people unfamiliar with Christian theology. The man's lameness from birth mirrors the beggar at the Temple Gate (3:2), suggesting healing of the chronically afflicted becomes a signature apostolic work.
Church Fathers on Acts 14:8
And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them, they were aware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lies round about: and there they preached the Gospel. Acts 14:5-7 Again, as if they purposely wished to extend the preaching after it was increased, they once more sent them out. See on all occasions the persecutions working great good,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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