Note 3 at Acts 14:20: This had to be a very miraculous healing of the apostle Paul. The scripture doesn't say that Paul was dead, but if not, he was so close to death that the ones who were trying to kill him were satisfied that he was dead. Yet, Paul rose up on his own and the next day traveled to Derbe which was twenty to fifty miles from Lystra (see note 5 at Acts 14:6, p. ???). To walk or ride that distance would be rough on a well man in good shape, but would have to be a miracle for a man who had been stoned and left for dead the day before.

This leaves no doubt that Paul received either a resurrection or a miraculous healing, yet it is possible that his body still bore some signs of the stoning when he arrived in Derbe and was still in the healing process. This is probably the infirmity that Paul made reference to when he wrote to the Galatians (Gal. 4:13-15) and may have accounted for some of the scars that he said he bore in his body (Gal. 6:17).