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Acts 4:22

for the man to whom this sign (attesting miracle) of healing had happened was more than forty years old.

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

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
for the man was above fourty yeare olde on whom this myracle of healinge was shewed.
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.
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.
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.
English Standard Version
For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
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.
English Revised Version
For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was wrought.
Berean Standard Bible
For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
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.
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.
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.
King James Version (1611)
For the man was aboue fourtie yeeres olde, on whome this miracle of healing was shewed.
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.
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.
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.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the man was about fourtie yere olde, on whom this miracle of healyng was shewed.
Good News Translation
The man on whom this miracle of healing had been performed was over forty years old.
Christian Standard Bible®
For this sign of healing had been performed on a man over forty years old.
King James Version
For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
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 .
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.
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.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Everyone was praising God that a man who had been lame for over forty years had been healed.
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.

Contextual Overview

15But after ordering them to step out of the Council [chamber], they began to confer among themselves, 16saying, "What are we to do with these men? For the fact that an extraordinary miracle has taken place through them is public knowledge and clearly evident to all the residents of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. 17"But to keep it from spreading further among the people and the nation, let us [sternly] warn them not to speak again to anyone in this name." 18So they sent for them, and commanded them not to speak [as His representatives] or teach at all in the name of Jesus [using Him as their authority]. 19But Peter and John replied to them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you and obey you rather than God, you must judge [for yourselves]; 20for we, on our part, cannot stop telling [people] about what we have seen and heard." 21When the rulers and Council members had threatened them further, they let them go, finding no way to punish them because [of their fear] of the people, for they were all praising and glorifying and honoring God for what had happened; 22for the man to whom this sign (attesting miracle) of healing had happened was more than forty years old.

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
"This is the offering you are to receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,
Numbers 31:22
only the gold, the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Deuteronomy 8:9
a land where you will eat bread without shortage, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
Deuteronomy 33:25
"Your strongholds will be iron and bronze, And as your days are, so will your strength, your rest and security be.
2 Chronicles 2:7
"Now send me a man who is skilled to work in gold, silver, bronze, and iron, and in purple, crimson, and blue fabrics, and who knows how to make engravings, to work with the skilled men who are with me in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.

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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