What Does Acts 3:9 Mean in the King James?

And all the people saw him walking and praising God:

Acts 3:9 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

Praise here has a body: the crowd sees restored movement alongside honor given to God.

THE MEANING

When life moves again in you, praise is not confined to an idea; it can rise alongside what your body is able to do. The verse holds visible movement and praise together, making restoration something others can witness as well as something you know.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

God is honored only by private words or inward feeling; here, bodily movement stands in the same public scene as praise.

THE ROOT

περιπατοῦντα

peripatounta

GROWS FROM

πατέω

pateō

The verbal base means to tread or walk; in ⁨περιπατέω⁩ (peripateō, walk about), ⁨περί⁩ (peri, around/about) shapes it as walking about.

This is a body literally walking, and the same verb can describe the course of a life. The Greek lets restored steps carry a larger picture of a life moving again.

ALSO GROWS

pateō: Tread, trample, or walk.

πατέω

It keeps the image concrete: the man’s praise is joined to actual steps, not only an inward state.

peripateō: Walk about; also walk as a way of life.

περιπατέω

This same verb can name literal movement and a life’s course; here, the body’s walk makes that wider sense visible.

THE PATTERN

Restoration becomes visible in the body and turns into praise that witnesses can share.

And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.

Psalm 40:3 · KJVPraise becomes visible enough for others to see, and what they witness moves them toward trust.

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

Isaiah 35:6 · KJVThe body’s restored movement and voice appear together as signs of life breaking through.

And immediately he rose up before them, and took up that whereon he lay, and departed to his own house, glorifying God.

Luke 5:25 · KJVA visible change in what the body can do becomes an occasion for praise.

THE THREAD

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Galatians 5:16 · KJV

The same verb, ⁨περιπατέω⁩ (peripateō, walk), describes physical steps here and a way of life in Galatians. The link lets the healed body’s movement open into the larger image of a life walking in the breath.

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