Acts 4:22

for the man who was the subject of this miraculous cure was more than forty years old.

Open English Bible (UK)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

21However, after further warnings, the Council set them at liberty, not seeing any safe way of punishing them, because of the people, for they were all praising God for what had occurred;

23After they had been set at liberty, the apostles went to their friends and told them what the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

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Cross References

Luke 13:11and he saw before him a woman who for eighteen years had suffered from weakness owing to her having an evil spirit in her. She was bent double, and was wholly unable to raise herself.

John 9:1As Jesus passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

Acts 9:33There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years with paralysis.

Matthew Henry on Acts 4:16-23

The Resolution of Peter and John. 15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, 16 Saying, What shall we do to these men? for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem; and we cannot deny it. 17 But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. 18 And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the… Read the whole commentary →

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