Acts 4:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

Acts 4:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 y...
Acts 4:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Acts 4:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

was shewed . had been wrought.
Acts 4:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed. The man was above forty years old - The disease was of long standing, and consequently the more inveterate; but all...
Acts 4:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 r...
Acts 4:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Acts 4:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Acts 4:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 ma...
Acts 4:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 p...
Acts 4:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 beho...
Acts 4:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 peo...
Acts 4:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 sinne...
Acts 4:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Acts 4:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 e...
Acts 4:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Resolution of Peter and John. 15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselv...
Acts 4:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 themse...
Acts 4:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Hearing Before The Sanhedrin (4:1-22).
Acts 4:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Acts 4:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 4:1-22 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...
Acts 4:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 4:8-12...
Acts 4:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Acts 4:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 p...
Acts 4:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 ca...
Acts 4:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The resolution announced to Peter and John:
Acts 4:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 3:2 ; Acts 9:33 ; John 5:5 ; John 9:1 ; Luke 13:11 ; Matthew 9:20
Acts 4:22 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Results of a Faithful Testimony Acts 4:13-31 INTRODUCTORY WORDS A real problem presented itself to the rulers of the Jews. They were greatly perturbed by the preaching of the disciples, an...

Acts 4:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 4:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 4:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 4:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Acts 4:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Acts 4:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 4:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Acts 4:22 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Acts 4:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Acts 4:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Acts 4:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Acts 4:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 4:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 4:22 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 4:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acts 4:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Acts 4:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 4:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 4:22 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Acts 4:22 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Acts 4:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 4:22 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 4:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Acts 4:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 4:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 4:22 - Wells of Living Water Commentary