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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Acts 4:22

For, more than forty years old, was the man, upon whom had taken place, this healing sign.

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.
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 Howbeit, ordering them to go forth outside the high-council, they began to confer one with another, 16 Saying - What are we to do with these men? For, indeed, that a notable sign hath come to pass through their means, unto all who are dwelling in Jerusalem, is manifest, and we cannot deny it ! 17 Nevertheless, lest it further spread abroad among the people, let us charge them with threats, to be no more speaking upon this name, to any soul of man. 18 And, calling them, they gave them the sweeping charge, - not to be sounding aloud, nor even to be teaching, upon the name of Jesus. 19 But, Peter and John, answering, said unto them - Whether it be right in presence of God, unto you, to be hearkening, rather than unto God, judge! 20 For, we, cannot but be speaking the things which we have seen and heard. 21 They, however, further charging them with threats, let them go, finding nothing as to how they might chastise them, on account of the people; because, all, were glorifying God for that which had come to pass; - 22 For, more than forty years old, was the man, upon whom had taken place, this healing sign.

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
And, this is the heave-offering which ye shall take of them, - gold and silver and bronze;
Numbers 31:22
Surely the gold and the silver, - the bronze the iron, the tin and the lead,
Deuteronomy 8:9
a land wherein not in scarcity, shalt thou eat food, thou shalt lack nothing therein, - a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest hew copper.
Deuteronomy 33:25
Iron and bronze, be thy sandals, And, as thy days, be thy strength.
2 Chronicles 2:7
Now, therefore, send me a wise man, to work in gold and in silver and in bronze and in iron, and in purple and crimson and blue, and skilful to execute gravings, - with the wise men who are with me, in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom my father David did provide.

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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