Acts 9:34

Peter announced that the healing was Jesus Christ’s work (cf. Acts 1:1; Acts 3:6). Jesus had also told a paralytic in Capernaum to take up his pallet and walk (Matthew 9:6; Mark 2:11; Luke 5:24). He later told another paralytic who lay at the Bethesda pool in Jerusalem to do the same thing (John 5:8). The Greek clause stroson seauto literally means "spread for yourself" and can refer to making a bed or preparing a table. The power of Jesus was still at work through Peter. The formerly paralyzed man arose immediately. Later Paul healed Publius’ father (Acts 28:8).

"I think every one of the different diseases mentioned in Scripture was intended by God to illustrate in some way the effects of sin." [Note: Ironside, Lectures on . . ., p. 231.]