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Acts 9:34
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Jesus Christ: Acts 3:6, Acts 3:12, Acts 3:16, Acts 4:10, Acts 16:18, Matthew 8:3, Matthew 9:6, Matthew 9:28-30, John 2:11
Reciprocal: Matthew 9:5 - Arise Mark 5:25 - twelve Mark 7:34 - Be opened Mark 16:18 - they shall lay Luke 5:24 - I say Luke 9:1 - gave John 5:8 - General John 11:43 - Lazarus John 14:12 - the Acts 2:43 - many Acts 4:30 - and that Acts 8:7 - palsies Acts 14:10 - Stand
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, c. He called him by his name, which he might without divine revelation know, though he was a stranger to him, by the people of the house, where he was:
Jesus Christ maketh thee whole Peter knew, by some secret impulse upon his mind, that Christ would cure this man by him as an instrument at this time, and therefore said these words; not as a prayer, as some render them, "may Jesus Christ heal thee", though was it so, it was a prayer of faith; but as a promise that he would, or rather as a declaration of the then present exertion of his power to heal him; which he ascribes not to himself, but to Christ, in whose name, and by whose power the apostles wrought all their miracles; Acts 3:12 "arise, and make thy bed"; which would be a full demonstration that he was perfectly whole:
and he arose immediately; and also, no doubt, made his bed, as the man at Bethesda's pool was bid by Christ, to take up his bed and carry it, as a proof of his soundness.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Maketh thee whole - Cures thee. Peter claimed no power to do it himself. Compare Acts 3:6, Acts 3:16; Acts 4:10.
Make thy bed - This would show that he was truly healed. Compare Matthew 9:6; Mark 2:9, Mark 2:11; John 5:11-12.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 34. Jesus Christ maketh thee whole — Not Peter, for he had no power but what was given him from above. And, as an instrument, any man could heal with this power as well as Peter; but God chose to put honour upon those primitive preachers of his word, that men might see that they were commissioned from heaven.
Arise, and make thy bed. — Give now full proof that Jesus Christ HAS made thee whole, by arising, and by making thy bed. He was at home, and therefore was not commanded, as the paralytic person, to take up his bed; but he was ordered to make it-strew it afresh, that all might see that the cure was perfect.
