Acts 4:9

Literal Standard Version

if we are examined today concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he has been saved,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a disabled man, by what means he was healed,

King James Version (1611)
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what meanes he is made whole,

King James Version
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;

English Standard Version
if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

New American Standard Bible
if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well,

New Century Version
are you questioning us about a good thing that was done to a crippled man? Are you asking us who made him well?

Amplified Bible
if we are being put on trial today [to interrogate us] for a good deed done to [benefit] a disabled man, as to how this man has been restored to health,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well,

Legacy Standard Bible
if we are being examined today for a good deed done to a sick man, as to how this man has been saved from his sickness,

Berean Standard Bible
If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,

Contemporary English Version
You are questioning us today about a kind deed in which a crippled man was healed.

Complete Jewish Bible
If we are being examined today about a good deed done for a disabled person, if you want to know how he was restored to health,

Darby Translation
if *we* this day are called upon to answer as to the good deed [done] to the infirm man, how *he* has been healed,

Easy-to-Read Version
are you questioning us today about what we did to help this crippled man? Are you asking us what made him well?

Geneva Bible (1587)
For as much as we this day are examined of the good deede done to the impotent man, to wit, by what meanes he is made whole,

George Lamsa Translation
If we are convicted today by you, concerning the good which has been done to a sick man, on the ground of by what means he was healed;

Good News Translation
if we are being questioned today about the good deed done to the lame man and how he was healed,

Lexham English Bible
if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a sick man—by what means this man was healed—

Literal Translation
if we are being examined today on a good work of an infirm man, by what this one has been healed,

American Standard Version
if we this day are examined concerning a good deed done to an impotent man, by what means this man is made whole;

Bible in Basic English
If we are questioned today about a good work done to a man who was ill, as to how he has been made well,

Hebrew Names Version
if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

International Standard Version
If we are being questioned today for a good deed to someone who was sick or to learn how this man was healed,

Etheridge Translation
hear: If we this day are judged of you concerning the good which has been done to the infirm man, insomuch that he is cured;

Murdock Translation
If we are judged by you this day, respecting the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he was healed;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If we this day be examined of the good deede done to the sicke man, by what meanes he is made whole:

English Revised Version
if we this day are examined concerning a good deed done to an impotent man, by what means this man is made whole;

World English Bible
if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If we are examined this day, of the benefit done to the impotent man,

Weymouth's New Testament
if we to-day are under examination concerning the benefit conferred on a man helplessly lame, as to how this man has been cured;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If we to dai be demyd in the good dede of a sijk man, in whom this man is maad saaf,

Update Bible Version
if we this day are examined concerning a good deed done to a lame man, how this man is made whole;

Webster's Bible Translation
If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made sound.

New English Translation
if we are being examined today for a good deed done to a sick man—by what means this man was healed—

New King James Version
If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well,

New Living Translation
are we being questioned today because we've done a good deed for a crippled man? Do you want to know how he was healed?

New Life Bible
are you asking us today about the good work we did to a man who needed help? Are you asking how he was healed?

New Revised Standard
if we are questioned today because of a good deed done to someone who was sick and are asked how this man has been healed,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If, we, this day, are to be examined for doing good to a sick man, - in whom, this, man hath been made well,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he hath been made whole:

Revised Standard Version
if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a cripple, by what means this man has been healed,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
yf we this daye are examined of the good dede done to the sycke man by what meanes he is made whoale:

Young's Literal Translation
if we to-day are examined concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he hath been saved,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf we this daye be examyned concernynge this good dede vpon the sicke ma, by what meanes he is made whole,

Mace New Testament (1729)
since we are this day to be examined about the cure of a cripple, and by what means he was recovered; be it known to you all,

Simplified Cowboy Version
If y'all are here today to punish us for committing a great act of kindness on a fellow who was lame, and you want to know how he was healed,

Contextual Overview

⁵And it came to pass the next day, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem, ⁶and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the family of the chief priest, ⁷and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, "In what power, or in what name did you do this?" ⁸Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them: "Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, ⁹if we are examined today concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he has been saved,¹⁰be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised out of the dead, in Him has this one stood by before you whole. ¹¹This is the stone that was set at nothing by you—the builders, that became head of a corner; ¹²and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under Heaven that has been given among men, in which it is required of us to be saved." ¹³And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are illiterate men and commoners, they were wondering—they were also taking knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus— ¹⁴and seeing the man standing with them who has been healed, they had nothing to say against [it],

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the good: Acts 3:7, John 7:23, John 10:32, 1 Peter 3:15-17, 1 Peter 4:14

Reciprocal: Matthew 9:5 - Arise Matthew 10:8 - Heal Matthew 11:5 - blind Matthew 14:36 - perfectly Mark 6:56 - touch John 14:12 - the Acts 14:8 - impotent

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
and Abel, he has brought, he also, from the female firstlings of his flock, and from their fat ones; and YHWH looks to Abel and to his present,

Genesis 4:9
And YHWH says to Cain, "Where [is] your brother Abel?" And he says, "I have not known; am I my brother's keeper?"

Genesis 4:11
and now, cursed [are] you from the ground, which has opened her mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand;

Genesis 4:13
And Cain says to YHWH, "My punishment is too great than to bear;

Genesis 4:14
behold, You have driven me today from off the face of the ground, and from Your face I am hid; and I have been a wanderer, even a trembling one, in the earth, and it has been—everyone finding me will slay me."

Genesis 37:32
and send the long coat, and they bring [it] to their father, and say, "We have found this; please discern whether it [is] your son's coat or not."

Psalms 9:12
For He who is seeking for blood || Has remembered them, || He has not forgotten the cry of the afflicted.

Proverbs 28:13
Whoever is covering his transgressions does not prosper, || And he who is confessing and forsaking has mercy.

John 8:44
You are of a father—the Devil, and the desires of your father you will to do; he was a manslayer from the beginning, and he has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, he speaks of his own, because he is a liar—also his father.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If we this day be examined of the good deed,.... Or "seeing" we are; for it was not a matter of doubt, but a clear case, that they were brought into court, and were passing under an examination, about the cure of the lame man; which the apostle rightly calls a

good deed, it being done in faith, and to the glory of God, and for the good of the man; and hereby tacitly suggests, that they were dealt very hardly with, to be seized and kept in custody, and be called in question, for doing an action so beneficent and kind, as this was, which was

done to the impotent man; who could not help himself, nor get his bread any other way, than by begging:

by what means he is made whole; restored to perfect health, and the proper use of his limbs; that is, by what power, and in what name this was done; the answer is ready, and it is as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If we this day - If as is the fact; or since we are thus examined.

Examined - Questioned; if the purpose is to institute an inquiry into this case, or since it is the purpose to institute such an inquiry.

The good deed - The act of benevolence; the benefit conferred on an infirm man. He assumes that it was undeniable that the deed had been done.

To the impotent man - To this man who was infirm or lame. The man was then present, Acts 4:10, Acts 4:14. He may have been arrested with the apostles; or he may have been present as a spectator; or, as Neander supposes, he may have been summoned as a witness.

By what means - This was the real point of the inquiry. The fact that he had been made whole was not denied. The only question was whether it had been done by the authority and power of Jesus of Nazareth, as Peter declared it to be, Acts 3:6, Acts 3:16.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 4:9. The good deed done — επι ευεργεσια, The benefit he has received in being restored to perfect soundness.