Acts 4:22 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 4:22

For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was wrought.

KJV

For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

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.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The older he grew the more inveterate the disease was, and the more hardly cured. If those that are grown into years, and have been long accustomed to evil, are cured of their spiritual impotency to good, and thereby of their evil customs, the power of divine grace is therein so much the more magnified.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

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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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐτῶν	etōn	of years	G2094 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ἦν	ēn	he was	G1510 →
πλειόνων	pleionōn	more than	G4119 →
τεσσεράκοντα	tesserakonta	forty -	G5062 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
ἄνθρωπος	anthrōpos	man	G444 →
ἐφ᾽	eph᾽	on	G1909 →
ὃν	hon	whom	G3739 →
γεγόνει	gegonei	had taken place	G1096 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
σημεῖον	sēmeion	sign	G4592 →
τοῦτο	touto	this	G3778 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
ἰάσεως.¶	iaseōs	of healing.	G2392 →

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 5:5
One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
leads to
- Mark 9:21
  Jesus asked the boy’s father, “How long has this been with him?” “From childhood,” he said.
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Luke 8:43
  including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Acts 3:2
  And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
Through
Luke 13:11
and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.
leads to
- Luke 13:16
  Then should not this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for eighteen long years, be released from her bondage on the Sabbath day?”
  Reached by 3 independent paths from here.
- Luke 8:2
  as well as some women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities: Mary called Magdalene, from whom seven demons had gone out,
Through
Matthew 9:20
Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
leads to
- Luke 8:43–56
  including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
- Mark 6:56
  And wherever He went—villages and towns and countrysides—they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.
- Matthew 14:36
  and begged Him just to let them touch the fringe of His cloak. And all who touched Him were healed.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Acts

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Acts