Acts 4:30

Acts 4:30

28 ^ato do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.

29 Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants ^athat with all boldness they may speak Your word,

30 by stretching out Your hand to heal, ^aand that signs and wonders may be done ^bthrough the name of ^cYour holy Servant Jesus.”

31 And when they had prayed, ^athe place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, ^band they spoke the word of God with boldness.

Sharing in All Things

32 Now the multitude of those who believed ^awere of one heart and one soul; ^bneither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

33 And with ^agreat power the apostles gave ^bwitness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And ^cgreat grace was upon them all.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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While thou stretchest forth thy hand (en tw thn xeira ekteinein se). Luke's favourite idiom, "In the stretching out (articular present active infinitive) the hand as to thee" (accusative of general reference), the second allusion to God's "hand" in this prayer (verse Acts 4:28).

To heal (eiv iasin). For healing. See verse Acts 4:22.

And that signs and wonders may be done (kai shmeia kai terata ginesqai). Either to be taken as in the same construction as ekteinein with en tw as Revised Version has it here or to be treated as subordinate purpose to en tw ekteinein (as Knowling, Page, Wendt, Hackett). The latter most likely true. They ask for a visible sign or proof that God has heard this prayer for courage to be faithful even unto death.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 4:30:**

Matthew 24:24
Luke 13:32
Acts 3:13
Acts 11:21
1 Corinthians 12:9
Revelation 3:7

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