Acts 3:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

His feet. — Better, his soles. The precision with which the process is described is characteristic of the medical historian. Both this term and the “ankle bones” employed are more or less technical, as is also the word rendered “received strength,” literally, were consolidated, the flaccid tissues and muscles being rendered firm and vigorous.

Acts 3:7

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