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Acts 4:22

20 For we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

21 After further threats they let them go. They could not find a way to punish them, because all the people were glorifying God for what had happened.

For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.

23 On their release, Peter and John returned to their own people and reported everything that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

24 When the believers heard this, they lifted up their voices to God with one accord. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “You made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old.
KJV
For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
WEB
For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
ASV
For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was wrought.
DARBY
for the man on whom this sign of healing had taken place was above forty years old.
BLB
For the man on whom this sign of healing had taken place was more than forty years [old].
ÅB
for han var mere enn førti år gammel den mann som dette helbredelsestegn hadde hendt med.
OTB
For mannen som var blitt helbredet, var over førti år gammel.
B1930
for han var mere enn firti år gammel den mann som dette helbredelsestegn hadde hendt med.

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Cross references

  • Acts 9:33

    There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.

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  • John 5:5

    One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • John 9:1

    Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,

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  • 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.

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