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Acts 4:22

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Caiaphas;   Miracles;   Peter;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Sanhedrim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Miracles, Signs, Wonders;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mark, Gospel According to;   Sadducees;   Sanhedrin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Acts of the Apostles (2);   Holy Spirit;   Miracles;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sanhedrin or Sanhedrim;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Heal;   Healing;   Miracle;   Shew;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For this sign of healing had been performed on a man over forty years old.
King James Version (1611)
For the man was aboue fourtie yeeres olde, on whome this miracle of healing was shewed.
King James Version
For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
English Standard Version
For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
New American Standard Bible
for the man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.
New Century Version
The man who received the miracle of healing was more than forty years old.
Amplified Bible
for the man to whom this sign (attesting miracle) of healing had happened was more than forty years old.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
for the man was more than forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.
Legacy Standard Bible
for the man was more than forty years old on whom this sign of healing had occurred.
Berean Standard Bible
For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
Complete Jewish Bible
since the man who had been miraculously healed was more than forty years old.
Darby Translation
for the man on whom this sign of healing had taken place was above forty years old.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the man was aboue fourtie yeeres olde, on whome this miracle of healing was shewed.
George Lamsa Translation
For the man on whom this miracle of healing had been wrought, was more than forty years old.
Good News Translation
The man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed was over forty years old.
Lexham English Bible
For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.
Literal Translation
For the man on whom this miraculous sign of healing had occurred was more than forty years of age .
American Standard Version
For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was wrought.
Bible in Basic English
For the man on whom this act of power was done was more than forty years old.
Hebrew Names Version
For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was performed.
International Standard Version
For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.
Etheridge Translation
For a son of more than forty years was that man in whom had been wrought this sign of healing.
Murdock Translation
for the man, on whom this sign of healing had been wrought, was more than forty years old.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the man was about fourtie yere olde, on whom this miracle of healyng was shewed.
English Revised Version
For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was wrought.
World English Bible
For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was performed.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For the man on whom this miracle of healing had been wrought, was above forty years old.
Weymouth's New Testament
For the man was over forty years of age on whom this miracle of restoration to health had been performed.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For the man was more than of fourty yeer, in which this signe of heelthe was maad.
Update Bible Version
For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing happened.
Webster's Bible Translation
For the man was above forty years old on whom this miracle of healing was performed.
New English Translation
For the man, on whom this miraculous sign of healing had been performed, was over forty years old.
New King James Version
For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.
New Living Translation
for this miraculous sign—the healing of a man who had been lame for more than forty years.
New Life Bible
The man on whom this powerful work of healing had been done was more than forty years old.
New Revised Standard
For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, more than forty years old, was the man, upon whom had taken place, this healing sign.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For the man was above forty years old, in whom that miraculous cure had been wrought.
Revised Standard Version
For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
for the man was above fourty yeare olde on whom this myracle of healinge was shewed.
Young's Literal Translation
for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the man, vpon whom this token of health was done, was aboue fourtye yeare olde.
Mace New Testament (1729)
for the man who was so miraculously cured, was above forty years old.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Everyone was praising God that a man who had been lame for over forty years had been healed.

Contextual Overview

15 The Jewish leaders told them to leave the council meeting. Then the leaders talked to each other about what they should do. 16 They said, "What shall we do with these men? Everyone in Jerusalem knows about the miracle they did as a sign from God. It's too obvious. We can't say it didn't happen. 17 But we must make them afraid to talk to anyone again using that name. Then this problem will not spread among the people." 18 So the Jewish leaders called Peter and John in again. They told the apostles not to say anything or to teach anything in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered them, "What do you think is right? What would God want? Should we obey you or God? 20 We cannot be quiet. We must tell people about what we have seen and heard." 21The Jewish leaders could not find a way to punish the apostles, because all the people were praising God for what had been done. This miracle was a sign from God. The man who was healed was more than 40 years old. So the Jewish leaders warned the apostles again and let them go free.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

forty: Acts 3:2, Acts 9:33, Matthew 9:20, Luke 13:11, John 5:5, John 9:1

Reciprocal: Mark 5:25 - twelve Mark 9:21 - How Mark 16:18 - they shall lay Luke 8:43 - twelve Acts 3:10 - they knew

Cross-References

Exodus 25:3
Here is the list of the things that you should accept from the people: gold, silver, and bronze;
Numbers 31:22
You must put gold, silver, bronze, iron, tin, or lead into the fire and then wash these things with the special water to make them pure. If something can be put in the fire, you must put it in fire to purify it. If things cannot be put in fire, you must still wash them with the special water.
Deuteronomy 8:9
There you will have plenty of food and everything you need. It is a land where the rocks are iron. You can dig copper out of the hills.
Deuteronomy 33:25
Your gates will have locks made from iron and bronze. You will be strong all your life."
2 Chronicles 2:7
"Now I would like you to send me a man who is skilled in working with gold, silver, bronze, and iron. He must know how to work with purple, red, and blue cloth. He will work here in Judah and Jerusalem with the craftsmen my father chose.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the man was above forty years old,.... So that the miracle was the greater, that a man born lame, and who had been so above forty years, should have a cure; and he was the more known to the people, and his testimony met with more credit:

on whom this miracle of healing was showed; both for the good of men, for the glory of God, and for the confirmation of the Gospel of Christ.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For the man ... - The age of the man is mentioned to show the certainty and greatness of the miracle. If it had been a man who had been lame but a few years, or if it had been a child or a very young man, the case would not been so remarkable. But after a continuance of 40 years, all hope of healing him by any ordinary means must have been abandoned, and all pretence that this was jugglery or deception must have been absurd.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 4:22. The man was above forty years old — The disease was of long standing, and consequently the more inveterate; but all difficulties, small or great, yield equally to the sovereign power of God. It is as easy with God to convert a sinner of forty or four-score, as one of ten years old. But he who now refuses to obey the call of God has neither reason nor revelation to support himself even in the most distant hope that he shall get, in a future time, the salvation which he rejects in the present.


 
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