Bible Strands
Acts 4:22
For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrator interjects a factual detail immediately after the Jewish council threatens and releases Peter and John for healing a lame man in the temple court.
The words — γὰρ (gar) = for and πλειόνων (pleionōn) = more than frame the clause, locking the healed man’s age to a specific chronological point.
The thread — The practice of recording an affliction’s duration appears in Acts 9:33, John 5:5, and Matthew 9:20 to anchor divine intervention in verifiable human experience.
Why it lands — The text states the healed man was publicly visible and over forty years old, establishing that the miracle occurred before a large crowd and rendering any official denial of God’s work factually impossible.
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The Greek words
King James Version
For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
Cross-references
- Acts 9:33 There he found a man named Aeneas who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.
- John 5:5 One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
- Matthew 9:20 Suddenly a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years came up behind Him and touched the fringe of His cloak.
- Luke 13:11 and a woman there had been disabled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was hunched over and could not stand up straight.
- John 9:1 Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,
- Acts 3:2 And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.