Acts 4:22
What meaning of the acts 4:22 in the Bible?
What does Acts 4:22 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed."
What does Acts 4:22 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed."
ACTS 4:22 gego,nei Manuscripts B and D unite in attesting gego,nei, whereas all other witnesses read evgego,nei. According to Moulton-Howard, in the New Testament the augment of the pluperfect is usu...
Verse Acts 4:22. _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...
FOR 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...
CHAPTER 4 __ 1. Their Arrest (Acts 4:1). 2. The Result of the Testimony (Acts 4:4). 3. Peter and John before the Rulers and Elders (Acts 4:5). 4. Peter's bold witness (Acts 4:8). 5. The astonish...
DILEMMA OF THE RULERS: THEIR VERDICT. The promise of Luke 21:15 is at once literally fulfilled, and the reasoning is given by which the judges felt themselves overborne. It is that Peter and John are...
ARREST (Acts 4:1-4)...
WAS SHEWED. had been wrought....
_the man was above forty years old_ To one who looked on the circumstances with a physician's eye, as St Luke would (Colossians 4:14), this feature would be most noticeable. For limbs unused shrink an...
THE APOSTLES ARE DISMISSED UNPUNISHED...
_THE APOSTLES WERE THREATENED ACTS 4:13-22:_ Their persecutors were perplexed by the boldness of Peter and John. They had perceived of Peter and John as being unlearned, ignorant men. However, that is...
ΓΕΓΌΝΕΙ _plperf. ind. act., см._ Acts 4:4....
BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN. Acts 4:5-22. Acts 4:5 And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem; Acts 4:6 and Annas the high priest was...
See notes on verse 21...
For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed. FOR THE MAN WAS ABOVE FORTY YEARS OLD ON WHOM THIS MIRACLE OF HEALING WAS SHOWED. But what availed the most resistle...
5 This was the supreme spiritual judiciary in Israel. It comprised the heads of the twenty-four courses of priests, the scribes, and elders, said to have been in all seventy-one. The names of the chie...
ARREST OF PETER AND JOHN 1-22. Arrest of Peter and John. Peter's speech before the Sanhedrin. The proceedings of the Apostles displeased the authorities, (1) because they taught the people (Acts 4:2)...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 4 THE *JEWISH LEADERS ARREST PETER AND JOHN, 4:1-4 V1 Peter and John were speaking to the people. As they spoke, the priests, the captain of the...
THE MAN WAS ABOVE FORTY YEARS OLD. — This precision in noting the duration of disease or infirmity is again characteristic of the writer. Comp. the case of the woman with an issue of blood (Luke 8:43)...
Characteristic of St. Luke to note the age, as in the case of Æneas, Acts 9:33, and of the cripple at Lystra, Acts 14:8, _cf._ also Luke 8:42 (although Mark also here notes the same fact), Acts 13:11....
BRAVING MEN TO OBEY GOD Acts 4:13-22 Do people realize that there is something about us which cannot be accounted for except that we have been with Jesus? Our company always influences us. A man is...
Opposition to apostolic preaching and work seems to have originated mostly from the influence of the Sadducees. The preaching of the apostles contradicted all the cardinal elements in the Sadducean ph...
Compelled to Preach Peter and John made it clear that in their view the Sanhedrin had no authority to countermand a command from God. Further, they felt compelled, by the power of the things they had...
ECCLESIASTICAL USURPATION 15-22. Here we see the preachers in authority at Jerusalem determine to crush out the holiness movement started by Jesus of Nazareth and perpetuated by His Apostles. So they...
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus. (14) And behol...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
In a word, they are invited to return by repentance, and enjoy all the promises made to Israel. The Messiah Himself should return from heaven to establish their blessing. The whole nation is here addr...
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...
For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed. Ver. 22. _Above forty years old_] An old cripple, therefore the greater miracle; so it is to convert an old sinner ...
_So when they had further threatened them_ Namely, in severer terms than before; _they let them go_ Not thinking it proper, all circumstances considered, to proceed to any further extremities at that...
The resolution announced to Peter and John:...
The religious leaders were greatly agitated by the public speaking of the apostles, and the Sadducees particularly, for one of their cardinal doctrines was the denial of any resurrection. They were ev...
FOR THE MAN WAS OVER FORTY YEARS OLD ON WHOM THIS MIRACLE OF HEALING HAD BEEN PERFORMED. 1. New information - He was over 40 years old. 2. He had been known as "the lame man" for 40 years....
For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was wrought. 'MORE THAN FORTY YEARS OLD'-'made him well known and an object of universal sympathy.' (McGarvey p. 75) 'he had...
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...
Therefore: 1. The harder to be cured. 2. The man was the more credible, who had so long known what it was to be without the use of his limbs, which now he enjoyed. 3. Whom they could not themselves...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III They were confounded, therefore, both by this instance of healing ("for the man was above forty years old on whom this miracle of healing took place"[178]...
Acts 4:22 For G1063 man G444 was G2258 (G5713) over G4119 forty G5062 old G2094 on G1909 whom G3739 this G5124 miracle G4592 healing G2392 performed G1096 (G5715) forty - Acts 3:2, Acts 9:33;...
THE HEARING BEFORE THE SANHEDRIN (4:1-22)....
_The Answer of Peter and John to the Threats of the Sanhedrim,_ 19-22. They say obedience must be shown to God rather than to men; as for them, they were only witnesses. After being again threatened,...
WAS WROUGHT (γεγονε). Second past perfect active without augment from γινομα....
Acts 4:1 Look at this passage: (1) from the side of the Jewish leaders; (2) from the side of the Apostles. I. On the side of the Jewish leaders there was (1) illiberality; (2) shortsightedness; (3)...
Peter and John were summoned before the priests to give an account for having healed the lame man, and for having preached in the name of Jesus of Nazareth. In the eighth verse we read: Acts 4:8. _Th...
CONTENTS: The first persecution. Peter's address to the Sanhedrin. Preaching in Jesus' name forbidden. Christians again filled with the Spirit. State of the Church at Jerusalem. CHARACTERS: God, Jesu...
Acts 4:1. _The captain of the temple_ was the captain of the watch, and saw that the levites performed their duty day and night. He beat them and set fire to their garments, if he found them asleep on...
BECAUSE THE PEOPLE. Note the power of public opinion! THE MAN. The man who had been healed was over forty years old, therefore known as a life-long cripple....
_And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them._ THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE was an officer of a sort which Luke mentions in the plura...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 4:13. PERCEIVED.—Lit., _having perceived_ from what they saw and heard at the time, or from previous inquiry. It would certainly have been strange if the Sanhedrists, and in pa...
EXPOSITION ACTS 4:1 THE CAPTAIN OF THE TEMPLE. Only here and Acts 5:24, and Luke 22:4, Luke 22:52 in the plural some have thought that the commander of the Roman garrison of the castle of Antonia is...
Now as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them, being grieved that they taught the people, and preached through Jesus the resurrection...
Acts 3:2; Acts 9:33; John 5:5; John 9:1; Luke 13:11; Matthew 9:20...
THE RESULTS OF A FAITHFUL TESTIMONY Acts 4:13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS A real problem presented itself to the rulers of the Jews. They were greatly perturbed by the preaching of the disciples, and by the...