Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 9:34

34 And Peter said unto him, Eneas , Jesus Christ maketh thee whole: arise, and make thy bed. And he arose immediately.

These words are not a prayer, (tho they were not spoken without Peters lifting up his heart to Christ in prayer) but a promise to this sick man of health and recovery, declaring from whom he [illegible: 1 letter]hould receive it, that he might know whom to acknowledge, and thank for it.

Our Saviour bids the sick of the palsie to arise, and take up his bed, Mark 2.9. and so he commands the impotent man, Iohn 5 8. Here St. Peter bids this Paralytick to make his bed; which seems more strange, being he was commanded to arise, so that now he should have no need of having his bed made, but 'tis easily answered, that being it was onely intended to shew how fully that he was cured: the making of his bed, did as mch prove both to himself and others, that he was recovered, as any thing else could do.