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Acts 4:22

20 For we can not but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

21 So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified God for that which was done.

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

23 And being let go, they went to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them.

24 And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:

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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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  • Acts 9:33

    And there he found a certain man named Æneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.

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  • John 5:5

    And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

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  • Acts 3:2

    And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;

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  • Matthew 9:20

    And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:

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  • John 9:1

    And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

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  • Luke 13:11

    And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.

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