NEW TESTAMENT

Acts 14:8

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At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.

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Verse 8. Perceiving that he had. It does not appear that Saint Paul had any previous conversation with the man he healed on this occasion, or demanded from him any testimony of his faith. But he saw that he had faith, perhaps by inspiration, or by the confidence and eagerness the lame man may have shewn in his countenance and actions. Calmet, and so forth

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