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Acts 4:30
as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The apostles address God in a corporate prayer immediately after facing threats from religious authorities. They ask for divine enablement to speak the message with complete boldness.
The words — The prayer employs χεῖρὶ (cheiri) for "hand" and ἐκτείνειν (ekteinein) for "stretching out" to depict God's active intervention. These terms literally describe an outstretched hand reaching toward a situation to act.
The thread — The request for healing and miraculous signs runs parallel to Acts 2:22, which identifies Jesus as certified by God through miracles and wonders, and mirrors the apostolic ministry recorded in Acts 3:6.
Why it lands — The text explicitly asks God to demonstrate power through signs and wonders to authenticate the proclamation of His holy servant Jesus. It requires readers to ground their courage in divine action rather than personal ability.
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The Greek words
King James Version
By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
Cross-references
- Acts 3:6 But Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
- Acts 4:27 In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
- Acts 2:22 Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.
- Acts 3:16 By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know has been made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through Him that has given him this complete healing in your presence.
- Acts 5:12 The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.
- Acts 9:40 Then Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down and prayed, and turning toward her body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.
- Exodus 6:6 Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
- Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Jeremiah 15:15 You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.
- Jeremiah 20:11 But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.