“And there he found a certain man named Eneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.”
There he found a man named Aeneas, a paralytic who had been bedridden for eight years.—Aeneas (Greek: Aineas, a Hellenistic name) represents a chronic, apparently hopeless condition; eight years suggests medical despair and social isolation. The paralysis echoes Jesus's healing of the paralytic in Mark 2, and Peter's authority as the successor to that healing ministry. The specificity of duration emphasizes the miracle's magnitude.
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