Acts 28:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed: Others - which had diseases - Luke was a physician; yet we do not find him engaging in these cures. As a medical man, he might have been of use to the father of Publius; but he is not even consulted on the occasion. Paul enters in to him, prays for him, lays his hands on him, and he is healed. The other diseased persons who are mentioned in this verse were doubtless healed in the same way.