Acts 4:22

For, more than forty years old, was the man, upon whom had taken place, this healing sign.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

21They, however, further charging them with threats, let them go, finding nothing as to how they might chastise them, on account of the people; because, all, were glorifying God for that which had come to pass;—

23But, when they had been let go, they came unto their own [friends], and told as many things as, unto them, the High-priests and Elders, had said.

Read all of Acts 4

Cross References

Luke 13:11And lo! a woman, having a spirit of weakness eighteen years,—and was bowed together, and unable to lift herself up, at all.

John 9:1And, passing along, he saw a man, blind from birth.

Acts 9:33And he found there a certain man, by name Aeneas, who, for eight years, had been lying prostrate upon a bed, for he was paralysed.

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 →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Acts 4:22