Acts 4:9
New International Version
If we are being called to account today for an act of kindness shown to a man who was lame and are being asked how he was healed,

New Living Translation
are we being questioned today because we’ve done a good deed for a crippled man? Do you want to know how he was healed?

English Standard Version
if we are being examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

Berean Standard Bible
If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,

Berean Literal Bible
if we are being examined this day as to a good work to the ailing man, by what means he has been healed,

King James Bible
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;

New King James Version
If we this day are judged for a good deed done to a helpless man, by what means he has been made well,

New American Standard Bible
if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well,

NASB 1995
if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well,

NASB 1977
if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well,

Legacy Standard Bible
if we are being examined today for a good deed done to a sick man, as to how this man has been saved from his sickness,

Amplified Bible
if we are being put on trial today [to interrogate us] for a good deed done to [benefit] a disabled man, as to how this man has been restored to health,

Christian Standard Bible
If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a disabled man, by what means he was healed,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a disabled man—by what means he was healed—

American Standard Version
if we this day are examined concerning a good deed done to an impotent man, by what means this man is made whole;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“If we today are judged by you for the beautiful thing which happened to an ill man, by what means this man was healed”,

Contemporary English Version
You are questioning us today about a kind deed in which a man who could not walk was healed.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the infirm man, by what means he hath been made whole:

English Revised Version
if we this day are examined concerning a good deed done to an impotent man, by what means this man is made whole;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
today you are cross-examining us about the good we did for a crippled man. You want to know how he was made well.

Good News Translation
if we are being questioned today about the good deed done to the lame man and how he was healed,

International Standard Version
If we are being questioned today for a good deed done for someone who was sick or to learn how this man was healed,

Literal Standard Version
if we are examined today concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he has been saved,

Majority Standard Bible
If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,

New American Bible
If we are being examined today about a good deed done to a cripple, namely, by what means he was saved,

NET Bible
if we are being examined today for a good deed done to a sick man--by what means this man was healed--

New Revised Standard Version
if we are questioned today because of a good deed done to someone who was sick and are asked how this man has been healed,

New Heart English Bible
if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

Webster's Bible Translation
If we this day are examined concerning the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made sound.

Weymouth New Testament
if we to-day are under examination concerning the benefit conferred on a man helplessly lame, as to how this man has been cured;

World English Bible
if we are examined today concerning a good deed done to a crippled man, by what means this man has been healed,

Young's Literal Translation
if we to-day are examined concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he hath been saved,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Peter and John Before the Council
8Then Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people! 9If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed, 10then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.…

Cross References
Acts 3:7
Taking him by the right hand, Peter helped him up, and at once the man's feet and ankles were made strong.

Acts 25:26
I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign one about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this inquiry I may have something to write.


Treasury of Scripture

If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the weak man, by what means he is made whole;

the good.

Acts 3:7
And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength.

John 7:23
If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

John 10:32
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?

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Acts 4
1. The rulers of the Jews, offended with Peter's sermon,
3. imprison him and John.
5. After, upon examination
8. Peter boldly avouching the lame man to be healed by the name of Jesus,
11. and that only by the same Jesus we must be eternally saved,
13. they threaten him and John to preach no more in that name,
23. whereupon the church flees to prayer.
31. And God, by moving the place where they were assembled, testifies that he heard their prayer;
34. confirming the church with the gift of the Holy Spirit, and with mutual love and charity.














(9) If we this day be examined.--The word is employed in its technical sense of a judicial inter rogation, as in Luke 23:14. It is used by St. Luke and St. Paul (Acts 12:19; Acts 24:8; 1Corinthians 2:14-15; 1Corinthians 4:3-4), and by them only, in the New Testament.

Of the good deed.--Strictly, the act of beneficence. There is a manifest emphasis on the word as contrasted with the contemptuous "this thing" of the question. It meets us again in 1Timothy 6:2. . . .

Verse 9. - Are for be, A.V.; concerning a (good deed) for of the, A.V.; an (impotent) for the, A.V.; this man for he, A.V. We; eraphatic, probably in response to the emphatic "you" at the end of ver. 7. An impotent man. The following οῦτος, this man, makes it necessary to supply the definite article, as the A.V. has done. St. Peter alludes to the good deed, i.e. the benefit done to the lame man, being the subject of a criminal inquiry, as a tacit condemnation of the unrighteousness of such a course.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
If
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

we
ἡμεῖς (hēmeis)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.

are being examined
ἀνακρινόμεθα (anakrinometha)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 350: From ana and krino; properly, to scrutinize, i.e. investigate, interrogate, determine.

today
σήμερον (sēmeron)
Adverb
Strong's 4594: Today, now. Neuter of a presumed compound of the article ho and hemera; on the day; generally, now.

about
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
Strong's 1909: On, to, against, on the basis of, at.

a kind service
εὐεργεσίᾳ (euergesia)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2108: Good action, well-doing, benefiting, kind service. From euergetes; beneficence.

[to a] man
ἀνθρώπου (anthrōpou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 444: A man, one of the human race. From aner and ops; man-faced, i.e. A human being.

[who was] lame,
ἀσθενοῦς (asthenous)
Adjective - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 772: (lit: not strong), (a) weak (physically, or morally), (b) infirm, sick. Strengthless.

[to determine]
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

how
τίνι (tini)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

he
οὗτος (houtos)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3778: This; he, she, it.

was healed,
σέσωσται (sesōstai)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 4982: To save, heal, preserve, rescue. From a primary sos; to save, i.e. Deliver or protect.


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