Acts 3:7
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New International Version (©2011)
Taking him by the right hand, he helped him up, and instantly the man's feet and ankles became strong.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then Peter took the lame man by the right hand and helped him up. And as he did, the man's feet and ankles were instantly healed and strengthened.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were made strong.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And seizing him by the right hand, he raised him up; and immediately his feet and his ankles were strengthened.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then, taking him by the right hand he raised him up, and at once his feet and ankles became strong.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then Peter took hold of his right hand and began to help him up. Immediately his feet and ankles became strong,

NET Bible (©2006)
Then Peter took hold of him by the right hand and raised him up, and at once the man's feet and ankles were made strong.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And he seized his right hand and raised him up, and in that moment, his legs and his feet were restored.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Peter took hold of the man's right hand and began to help him up. Immediately, the man's feet and ankles became strong.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.

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

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And taking him by the right hand, he lifted him up, and forthwith his feet and soles received strength.

Darby Bible Translation
And having taken hold of him by the right hand he raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankle bones were made strong.

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

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

Weymouth New Testament
Then taking his hand Peter lifted him up, and immediately his feet and ankles were strengthened.

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

Young's Literal Translation
And having seized him by the right hand, he raised him up, and presently his feet and ankles were strengthened,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:1-11 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!

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - Raised for lifted, A.V.; his ankle-bones for ancle bones, A.V. St. Luke's medical knowledge discerns the cause of the lameness - a weakness in the anklebones.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he took him by the right hand,.... In imitation of Christ, whom he had often seen using the same action on such occasions:

and lift him up; believing he was cured, and that it might be manifest. The word him is expressed in the Alexandrian copy, and in some others, and in the Oriental versions, which is a supplement in our translation:

and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength; where, it seems, his lameness lay. The Vulgate Latin renders it, his bases and soles, which may include his legs and thighs, as well as feet; and the Syriac version, "his feet and soles"; and the Arabic version, "his soles, and the muscles adjoining to his heels"; and the Ethiopic version furthest off of all, "he was strengthened in his feet, and in his loins"; his disorder might be of the paralytic kind.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. And he took … and lifted him up—precisely what his Lord had done to his own mother-in-law (Mr 1:31).

his feet—"soles."

and ankle bones, &c.—the technical language of a physician (Col 4:14).

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Healing the Lame Beggar
…6Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. 7And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength. 8And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God. …

Acts 3:6 Then Peter said, "Silver or gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk."
Acts 3:8 He jumped to his feet and began to walk. Then he went with them into the temple courts, walking and jumping, and praising God.
Acts 4:9 If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed,
Acts 4:16 "What are we going to do with these men?" they asked. "Everyone living in Jerusalem knows they have performed a notable sign, and we cannot deny it.