It is supposed this Aeneas was a Jew, though now living at Lydda; and that St. Luke here names him by the name the Grecians called him by, he being amongst his own countrymen called Hillel. Kept his bed eight years; to show the difficulty of the cure, and greatness of the miracle.
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Acts 9:33
33 And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.