32 Peter went off on a mission to visit all the churches. In the course of his travels he arrived in Lydda and met with the believers there. 33 He came across a man - his name was Aeneas - who had been in bed eight years paralyzed. 34 Peter said, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed!" And he did it - jumped right out of bed. 35 Everybody who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him walking around and woke up to the fact that God was alive and active among them.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 9:32-35
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.