Abbot Abraham Heals a Lame Man

Or again, when the same man was going to a village, he was surrounded by mocking crowds. They sneered at him and showed him a man who for many years had been unable to walk because of a contracted knee, and who crawled about from a weakness of long standing. They tested him and said: “Show us, father Abraham, if you are the servant of God: restore this man to his former health, so that we may believe that the name of Christ, whom you worship, is not empty.” At once he called on the name of Christ, stooped down, took hold of the man’s withered foot, and pulled it. Immediately, at his touch, the dried-up and bent knee was straightened. The man got back the use of his legs, which he had forgotten how to use in his long years of weakness, and went away rejoicing. [a]