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

Bible Comments

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 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.

Acts 4:22

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