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The Visit to Lystra and Derbe

Acts 14:8

In 9 translations

BSB
In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
KJV
¶ And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:
WEB
At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
ASV
And at Lystra there sat a certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
LSV
And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in the feet, was sitting, being lame from the womb of his mother—who never had walked;
YLT
And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in the feet, was sitting, being lame from the womb of his mother — who never had walked,
DBY
And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in his feet, sat, [being] lame from his mother's womb, who had never walked.
DRC14:7
And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
GNV
Nowe there sate a certaine man at Lystra, impotent in his feete, which was a creeple from his mothers wombe, who had neuer walked.

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read περιεπάτησεν (“walked”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read περιπεπατήκει (“had walked”).
Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
  • Word order: Tyndale House, Tregelles, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text place ἀδύνατος elsewhere in this verse.
  • In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include ὑπάρχων (“being”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (3)

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  • SBLGNT: ἀδύνατος ἐν Λύστροις. Westcott and Hort (1881), Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἀδύνατος ἐν Λύστροις; Tregelles, Robinson–Pierpont read ἐν Λύστροις ἀδύνατος.
  • SBLGNT: αὐτοῦ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read αὐτοῦ; Robinson–Pierpont add ὑπάρχων.
  • SBLGNT: περιεπάτησεν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read περιεπάτησεν; Robinson–Pierpont read περιπεπατήκει.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
Καί τις ἀνὴρ ἀδύνατος ἐν Λύστροις τοῖς ποσὶν ἐκάθητο, χωλὸς ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐτοῦ, ὃς οὐδέποτε περιεπάτησεν.
RP2018
Καί τις ἀνὴρ ἐν Λύστροις ἀδύνατος τοῖς ποσὶν ἐκάθητο, χωλὸς ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐτοῦ ὑπάρχων, ὃς οὐδέποτε περιπεπατήκει.
TR-Boyd
Καί τις ἀνὴρ ἐν Λύστροις ἀδύνατος τοῖς ποσὶν ἐκάθητο, χωλὸς ἐκ κοιλίας μητρὸς αὐτοῦ ὑπάρχων, ὃς οὐδέποτε περιεπεπατήκει.περιεπεπατήκει ¦ περιπεπατήκει ST
SCR1894
και τις ανηρ εν λυστροις αδυνατος τοις ποσιν εκαθητο χωλος εκ κοιλιας μητρος αυτου υπαρχων ος ουδεποτε περιεπεπατηκει

Who and where

📍 Lystra◆ First Missionary Journey◆ Mission to Lystra and Derbe

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Acts 3:2And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
  • John 5:3–5On these walkways lay a great number of the sick, the blind, the lame, and the paralyzed. One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
  • Acts 4:9If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,
  • John 5:7“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am on my way, someone else goes in before me.”
  • John 9:1–2Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth, and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

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Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 14:7 in some Bibles
  • 14:8 in most Bibles

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