Acts 3:7

He took him by the right hand, and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.

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WEBBE

He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.

BSB

Taking him by the right hand, Peter helped him up, and at once the man’s feet and ankles were made strong.

KJV

And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.

ASV

And he took him by the right hand, and raised him up: and immediately his feet and his ankle-bones received strength.

BBE

And he took him by his right hand, lifting him up; and straight away his feet and the bones of his legs became strong,

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καὶ kai And G2532 πιάσας piasas having taken G4084 αὐτὸν auton him G846 τῆς tēs by the G3588 δεξιᾶς dexias right G1188 χειρὸς cheiros hand G5495 ἤγειρεν ēgeiren he raised up G1453 αὐτόν auton him G846 παραχρῆμα parachrēma immediately G3916 δὲ de then G1161 ἐστερεώθησαν estereōthēsan were strengthened G4732 αἱ hai the G3588 βάσεις baseis feet G939 αὐτοῦ autou of him G846 καὶ kai and G2532 τὰ ta the G3588 σφυδρά sphudra ankles G4974

The early church

"And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up." Such was also the way of Christ. Often He healed by word, often by an act, often also He stretched forth the hand, where men were somewhat weak in faith, that the cure might not appear to be spontaneous. "And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up." This act made manifest the Resurrection, for it was an image of the Resurrection.

John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on Acts

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–11

The apostles and the first believers attended the temple worship at the hours of prayer. Peter and John seem to have been led by a Divine direction, to work a miracle on a man above forty years old, who had been a cripple from his birth. Peter, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, bade him rise up and walk. Thus, if we would attempt to good purpose the healing of men's souls, we must go forth in the name and power of Jesus Christ, calling on helpless sinners to arise and walk in the way of holiness, by faith in Him. How sweet the thought to our souls, that in respect to all the crippled faculties of our fallen nature, the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth can make us whole! With what holy joy and rapture shall we tread the holy courts, when God the Spirit causes us to enter therein by his strength!

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.