33 And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.
33 There he found a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eight years.
33 There he found a man named Aeneas, bedridden for eight years, who was paralyzed.
33 He came across a man - his name was Aeneas - who had been in bed eight years paralyzed.
33 There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years and was paralyzed.
33 There he met a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 9:33
Commentary on Acts 9:32-35
(Read Acts 9:32-35)
Christians are saints, or holy people; not only the eminent ones, as Saint Peter and Saint Paul, but every sincere professor of the faith of Christ. Christ chose patients whose diseases were incurable in the course of nature, to show how desperate was the case of fallen mankind. When we were wholly without strength, as this poor man, he sent his word to heal us. Peter does not pretend to heal by any power of his own, but directs Eneas to look up to Christ for help. Let none say, that because it is Christ, who, by the power of his grace, works all our works in us, therefore we have no work, no duty to do; for though Jesus Christ makes thee whole, yet thou must arise, and use the power he gives thee.