Acts Chapter 14 verse 9 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 14:9

The same heard Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes upon him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,
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BBE Acts 14:9

This man was giving ear to the preaching of Paul, who, looking at him, and seeing that he had faith to be made well,
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DARBY Acts 14:9

This [man] heard Paul speaking, who, fixing his eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be healed,
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KJV Acts 14:9

The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,
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WEB Acts 14:9

He was listening to Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes on him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole,
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YLT Acts 14:9

this one was hearing Paul speaking, who, having stedfastly beheld him, and having seen that he hath faith to be saved,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Speaking for speak, A.V.; fastening his eyes upon for stedfastly beholding, A.V. (see above, Acts 1:10; Acts 3:4, etc.); seeing for perceiving, A.V.; made whole for healed, A.V. Heard. The force of the imperfect ἤκουε would, perhaps, be better given by "listened" to Paul speaking. There is great resemblance between this miracle of healing, and that of the lame man laid at the gate of the temple, who was healed by Peter (Acts 3:2-10), and, not unnaturally, considerable identity of expression in the narratives. Both men were lame from their birth; the apostles fastened their eyes upon both; both, when healed, leaped and walked; and in both cases the miracle 'had a great effect upon the multitudes who beheld it. Zeller (vol. it. p. 6), with characteristic recklessness, infers that "this narrative was, merely in imitation of the early miraculous story of Peter;" and so relegates both it and the subsequent narrative to the regions of fable.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Who stedfastly beholding him.--We note once more the recurrence of the characteristic word and look. (See Note on Acts 13:9.)Perceiving that he had faith to be healed.--Here, as so often, as if it were the general, though not the universal, law of miraculous working (see Notes on Mark 10:23), faith is pre-supposed as the condition. It follows from this, no less than from the tense of the verb, "used to listen to Paul as he spoke," that he had for some days been among St. Paul's hearers, had heard the gospel of the death and resurrection of Jesus, and had found that such a Saviour met his every need. All this the Apostle read, with that earnest gaze of his, in the man's upward look.