Acts 8:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.

Unclean

Hebrews 2:4

Palsies

Acts 9:33

Mark 2:3

Lame

Matthew 15:30

General references

John 4:30

Bible References

Unclean

And the people from the towns in the vicinity of Jerusalem were coming together, bringing the sick and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all being healed.

Jesus summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority and power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.

After screaming out and throwing him into a terrible convulsion, it came out. The boy looked so much like a corpse [so still and pale] that many [of the spectators] said, “He is dead!”

These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak in new tongues;

The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.”

I assure you and most solemnly say to you, anyone who believes in Me [as Savior] will also do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these [in extent and outreach], because I am going to the Father.

[and besides this evidence] God also testifying with them [confirming the message of salvation], both by signs and wonders and by various miracles [carried out by Jesus and the apostles] and by [granting to believers the] gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.

Palsies

There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years and was paralyzed.

Then they came, bringing to Him a paralyzed man, who was being carried by four men.

Lame

But Peter said, “Silver and gold I do not have; but what I do have I give to you: In the name (authority, power) of Jesus Christ the Nazarene—[begin now to] walk and go on walking!”

Now at Lystra a man sat who was unable to use his feet, for he was crippled from birth and had never walked.

Then the lame will leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy.
For waters will break forth in the wilderness
And streams in the desert.

the blind receive [their] sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed [by healing] and the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

And great crowds came to Him, bringing with them the lame, crippled, blind, mute, and many others, and they put them down at His feet; and He healed them.

General references

So the people left the city and were coming to Him.