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Simplified Cowboy Version

Acts 4:14

The decision makers wanted to do a lot of things, but the fact that the man who'd once been lame was standing right there was hard to argue with.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Caiaphas;   Government;   John;   Persecution;   Peter;   Priest;   Thompson Chain Reference - Living Witnesses;   Men;   Silence-Speech;   Silenced, Men;   Testimony, Religious;   Witnessing to the Truth;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Peter;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John the apostle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Sanhedrim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Sanhedrin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mark, Gospel According to;   Peter;   Sadducees;   Sanhedrin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Holy Spirit;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sanhedrin or Sanhedrim;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
And since they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in opposition.
King James Version (1611)
And beholding the man which was healed, standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
King James Version
And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
English Standard Version
But seeing the man who was healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition.
New American Standard Bible
And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply.
New Century Version
Because they saw the healed man standing there beside the two apostles, they could say nothing against them.
Amplified Bible
And seeing the man who had been healed standing there with them, they had nothing to say in reply.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply.
Legacy Standard Bible
And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say in reply.
Berean Standard Bible
And seeing the man who had been healed standing there with them, they had nothing to say in response.
Contemporary English Version
But they could not deny what had happened. The man who had been healed was standing there with the apostles.
Complete Jewish Bible
Moreover, since they could see the man who had been healed standing right there beside them, there was nothing they could say to discredit the healing.
Darby Translation
And beholding the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to reply;
Easy-to-Read Version
They saw the crippled man standing there beside the apostles. They saw that he was healed, so they could say nothing against the apostles.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And beholding also the man which was healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against it.
George Lamsa Translation
And because they saw the lame man who was healed standing with them they could say nothing against them.
Good News Translation
But there was nothing that they could say, because they saw the man who had been healed standing there with Peter and John.
Lexham English Bible
And because they saw the man who had been healed standing there with them, they had nothing to say in return.
Literal Translation
But seeing the man standing with them, the one having been healed, they had nothing to say against him .
American Standard Version
And seeing the man that was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
Bible in Basic English
And, seeing that the man who had been made well was there with them, they were not able to say anything against it.
Hebrew Names Version
Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
International Standard Version
And seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could not say anything against them.Acts 3:11;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And they saw that the lame man who had been healed was standing with them, and they could not say any thing against them.
Murdock Translation
And they saw that the lame man, who had been healed, stood near them; and they could say nothing to confront them.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And beholdyng also the man which was healed, standyng with them, they coulde not say agaynst it,
English Revised Version
And seeing the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
World English Bible
Seeing the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And beholding the man who had been healed, standing with them, they had nothing to say against it.
Weymouth's New Testament
And seeing the man standing with them--the man who had been cured--they had no reply to make.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei siyen the man that was helid, stondinge with hem, and thei myyten no thing ayenseie.
Update Bible Version
And seeing the man that was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
Webster's Bible Translation
And beholding the man who was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
New English Translation
And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this.
New King James Version
And seeing the man who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
New Living Translation
But since they could see the man who had been healed standing right there among them, there was nothing the council could say.
New Life Bible
They were not able to argue about what Peter and John had said because the man who had been healed was standing with them.
New Revised Standard
When they saw the man who had been cured standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Seeing, the man also standing, with them, even the man who had been cured, they had nothing wherewith to contradict.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Seeing the man also who had been healed, standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
Revised Standard Version
But seeing the man that had been healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and beholdinge also the ma which was healed stondinge with the they coulde not saye agaynst it.
Young's Literal Translation
and seeing the man standing with them who hath been healed, they had nothing to say against [it],
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
As for the man yt was made whole, they sawe hi stodinge by the, & coulde not saye agaynst it.
Mace New Testament (1729)
yet seeing the man who was cured standing with them, they could not tell what to reply.

Contextual Overview

5The next day, all the church decision makers met in Jerusalem. 6Annas, the Head Preacher, was in attendance as well as Caiaphas, John, Alex, and others of the Head Preacher's family. 7They brought Pete and John into the meeting and asked them, "How did you do this? What name did you call down from heaven?" 8Pete, who was filled with the Holy Spirit, said, "Y'all head honchos listen up! 9If 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, 10then you need to understand one thing first. The power and the name are from Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Y'all remember him don't you—the one you killed, but God brought him back from the grave? It is because of him that the fellow was healed. 11Jesus even said, 'The bull the ranchers sorted out has now become the sire bull.' 12You can't be saved and get to heaven by no other means than faith in Jesus Christ. There is no other name or method that can do that job." 13Pete and John's courage amazed the decision makers. These two cowboys were obviously uneducated and crude, but there was no doubt they had ridden with Jesus. 14The decision makers wanted to do a lot of things, but the fact that the man who'd once been lame was standing right there was hard to argue with.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

beholding: Acts 4:10, Acts 3:8-12

they: Acts 4:16, Acts 4:21, Acts 19:36

Reciprocal: Matthew 14:36 - perfectly Matthew 22:46 - no Matthew 27:42 - saved Mark 6:2 - From John 9:19 - Is this John 12:9 - General Acts 3:10 - they knew

Cross-References

Matthew 25:41
"Then the Lord will turn to the goats on his left and say, 'Get these sorry mongrels off my spread! Put them on the killer trucks and ship them off to the fire that never goes out—the fire that was prepared for the devil and his demons!
Matthew 25:46
"And then they will be shipped off to the fires of hell, but those cowboys and cowgirls who rode for the Father's brand will be turned out to lush, eternal pasture."
2 Thessalonians 1:9
They'll realize too late how much they missed when they are cut off forever from God's love as a result of their hard hearts.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And beholding the man which was healed,.... Who either was taken into custody, and brought before the sanhedrim, along with the apostles; or rather, who came here of his own accord to be witness for them: for he was

standing with them; in company with them, and close by them, and on their side; and so they could, and did point and appeal unto him, who was ready to justify, that it was not by the use of medicine, or of magic art, or in the name of Satan or Beelzebub, but by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, that his cure was wrought:

they could say nothing against it; they could not gainsay the fact, for the man was before them, perfectly well, whom they personally knew, by his lying so long at the gate of the temple; they knew that he had been lame from his mother's womb, who was now above forty years of age; and they could say nothing against the manner of his cure, who was present to attest it; nor could they say anything against them; the apostles, as the Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read; they could not blame them for doing it, it being a good deed, nor charge them with fraud and imposture.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They could say nothing ... - The presence of the man that was healed was an unanswerable fact in proof of the truth of what the apostles alleged. The miracle was so public, clear, and decisive; the man that was healed was so well known, that there was no evasion or subterfuge by which they could escape the conclusion to which the apostles were conducting them. It evinced no little gratitude in the man that was healed that he was present on this occasion, and showed that he was deeply interested in what befell his benefactors. The miracles of Jesus and his apostles were such that they could not be denied, and hence, the Jews did not attempt to deny that they performed them. Compare Matthew 12:24; John 11:45-46; Acts 19:36.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 4:14. They could say nothing against it. — They could not gainsay the apostolic doctrine, for that was supported by the miraculous fact before them. If the doctrine be false, the man cannot have been miraculously healed: if the man be miraculously healed, then the doctrine must be true that it is by the name of Jesus of Nazareth that he has been healed. But the man is incontestably healed; therefore the doctrine is true.


 
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