Acts 4:22

Acts 4:22 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
• New International Version (NIV)For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
• English Standard Version (ESV)For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
• New King James Version (NKJV)For the man was over forty years old on whom this miracle of healing had been performed.

Context of Acts 4:22

20We know what is right. We must continue to speak about these things. We must tell people about the things that we have seen and heard.’ 21The Jewish leaders were angry. They told Peter and John that they must obey them. Then they let Peter and John go free. All the people there were praising God because of the miracle. So the leaders could not decide how to punish Peter and John. The man who became well because of this miracle was more than 40 years old. 23After the Jewish leaders let them go free, Peter and John went back to the group of believers. They told them what the leaders of the priests and the important Jews had said. 24The believers listened to what Peter and John told them. Then they all prayed together. They said to God, ‘You are the Lord who rules over everything. You made the sky, the earth and the sea. You also made everything that is in them.

Acts 4:22 word by word

ἐτῶν γὰρ ἦν πλειόνων τεσσεράκοντα ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐφ᾽ ὃν γεγόνει τὸ σημεῖον τοῦτο τῆς ἰάσεως.¶Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Forγάρgar · forG1063
• the manὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• the manἄνθρωποςanthrōpos · a humanG444
• wasεἰμίeimi · to beG1510
• aboveπλείων, πλεῖονpleiōn pleion pleon · greaterG4119
• fortyτεσσαράκονταtessarakonta · fortyG5062
• years oldἔτοςetos · yearG2094
• onἐπίepi · upon/to/againstG1909
• whomὅςhos hē ho · whichG3739
• thisοὗτοςhoutos houtoi hautē hautai · this/he/she/itG3778
• miracleσημεῖονsēmeion · signG4592
• of healingἴασιςiasis · healingG2392
• was shewedγίνομαιginomai · to beG1096

Cross-references for Acts 4:22

• Acts 3:2There was a man who could not walk. He had never been able to walk. Every day, his friends put him at the gate of the temple. It was called the Beautiful Gate. As people were going in through the gate, the man asked them for money. His friends were carrying him there when Peter and John arrived.
• Acts 9:33In Lydda, he met a man called Aeneas. Aeneas could not move his arms or his legs. He lay on his mat all the time. He had been on his mat for eight years.
• Matthew 9:20There was a sick woman in the crowd. She had been losing blood for 12 years. She came near to Jesus, behind him. She touched the edge of his coat.
• Luke 13:11There was a woman there that had a bad spirit inside her. It had lived in her for 18 years and it had made her ill. Her back was bent. She could not stand up straight.
• John 5:5One man who was lying there had been ill for 38 years.
• John 9:1While Jesus was walking along, he saw a certain man. This man had been blind since he was born.

Commentaries on Acts 4:22

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22The 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…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22For the man … - The age of the man is mentioned to show the certainty and greatness of the miracle. If it had been a man who had been lame but a few years, or if it had been a child or a very young man, the case would not been so remarkable. But after a continuance of 40 years, all hope of healing him by any ordinary means must have been abandoned, and all pretence that this was jugglery or deception must have been absurd.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-22Verses 15-22 All the care of the rulers is, that the doctrine of Christ spread not among the people, yet they cannot say it is false or dangerous, or of any ill tendency; and they are ashamed to own the true reason; that it testifies against their hypocrisy, wickedness, and tyranny. Those who know how to put a just value upon Christ's promises, know how to put just contempt upon the world's threatenings. The apostles look with concern on perishing souls…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-22Throughout the Bible, God's people often experienced persecution. God's servants often encountered hostility and opposition (Deuteronomy 30:7; 1 Kings 18:13; Nehemiah 4:1–3; Jeremiah 37–38; Matthew 23:34–37; Luke 11:49–51; 1 Thessalonians 2:14–15). Jesus was also persecuted (Luke 4:29; John 5:16). He warned his disciples to expect similar treatment (Matthew 10:23; 24:9; Mark 13:9; Luke 21:12; John 16:2). However, he promised that the Holy Spirit would…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 18-2218-22. Whether it be right ... to hearken to you more than ... God, judge ye.Read the comment

Topics related to Acts 4:22

• Caiaphas
• Miracles
• Peter

In the dictionaries

• Counsel
• Hold
• Notable
• Possess
• Sanhedrim
• Threaten
• Threatening
• Acts of the Apostles
• Courts, Judicial
• Heal

Commentaries on Acts 4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings