SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:8
Y saltando, se puso en pie, y anduvo; y entr con ellos en el Templo, andando, y saltando, y alabando a Dios.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 3:8
Verse 8. Walking and leaping, and praising God.] These actions are very naturally described. He walked, in obedience to the command of the apostle, rise up and walk: he leaped, to try the strength of his limbs and to be convinced of the reality of the cure: he praised God, as a testimony of the gratitude he felt for the cure he had received. Now was fulfilled, in the most literal manner, the words of the Prophet Isaiah, Isa. xxxv. 6: The lame man shall leap as a hart.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. And he leaping up , etc.] From off the bed or couch, or ground on which he lay: stood and walked ; stood firm and strong upon his feet, and walked about; by which it was abundantly manifest to himself and others, that he had a perfect cure. The Ethiopic version is a very ridiculous one, and he went with them catching fishes; as if upon this, before they went into the temple, he and the apostles went a fishing together, which has not the least foundation in the text: and entered with them into the temple ; to join with them in divine worship, to acknowledge the goodness of God to him, and to show respect to the instruments he made use of in his cure: and leaping ; for joy of the mercy, and that it might appear to all that he was thoroughly cured of his lameness: and thus the prophecy in ( Isaiah 35:6) then shall the lame man leap as an hart, was literally fulfilled: and praising God ; and not the apostles; for he knew that this was owing to the power of God, and could never have been done by man; though he might not be ungrateful to the instruments.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 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 Divin direction, to work a miracle on a man above forty years old, who ha 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 purpos 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, tha in respect to all the crippled faculties of our fallen nature, the nam of Jesus Christ of Nazareth can make us whole! With what holy joy an rapture shall we tread the holy courts, when God the Spirit causes u to enter therein by his strength!
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ εξαλλομενος 1814 5740 V-PNP-NSM εστη 2476 5627 V-2AAI-3S και 2532 CONJ περιεπατει 4043 5707 V-IAI-3S και 2532 CONJ εισηλθεν 1525 5627 V-2AAI-3S συν 4862 PREP αυτοις 846 P-DPM εις 1519 PREP το 3588 T-ASN ιερον 2411 N-ASN περιπατων 4043 5723 V-PAP-NSM και 2532 CONJ αλλομενος 242 5740 V-PNP-NSM και 2532 CONJ αινων 134 5723 V-PAP-NSM τον 3588 T-ASM θεον 2316 N-ASM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
8. Leaping up (exallomenov). Strictly, leaping forth. Only here in New Testament. Used in medical language of the sudden starting of a bone from the socket, of starting from sleep, or of the sudden bound of the pulse. Walked (periepatei). The imperfect. Correctly, as Rev., began to walk; or, perhaps, continued walking about, testing his newly acquired power. The medical notes of the case are, that the disease was congenital, had lasted over forty years (ch. iv. 22), and the progressive steps of the recovery - leaped up, stood, walked.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
3:8 {Leaping up} (exallomenos). Present middle participle, leaping out repeatedly after Peter pulled him up. Only here in the N.T. {He stood} (este). Second aorist active. {Walked} (periepatei). Went on walking, imperfect active. He came into the temple repeating these new exercises (walking, leaping, praising God).
