Acts 4:22

For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

21So after threatening Peter and John further, they released them, finding no way to punish them, because all the people were glorifying God for what had happened.

23After being released, Peter and John went to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

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Cross References

Luke 13:11And behold, there was a woman who had suffered from a spirit of disability for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not stand up completely straight.

John 9:1As Jesus walked along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

Acts 9:33There he found a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had been confined to a mat for eight years.

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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