What Does Acts 4:10 Mean?
Let it be known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that by the nature of Jesus the Anointed One of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead, by him this man stands here before your faces, sound.
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Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.THE KEY
The man’s restored soundness is public evidence that the one they crucified is alive and active.
THE MEANING
The name of Jesus carries deliverance, and Christ names him as the anointed one; the man stands whole before the very people told that they crucified him. God’s raising of Jesus and this man’s soundness are set together, so the one declared dead is revealed as active in life now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This dissolves the claim that crucifixion proves Jesus is defeated and absent: the man standing whole makes his present power visible.
THE ROOT
ὑγιής
hygiēs
GROWS FROM
ὑγι-
Sound, healthy, in good condition.
The Greek word names the man’s sound condition, not simply a vague sense of completeness. Its family also names health and being healthy, so the verse presents wholeness as something visible in the man standing there.
ALSO GROWS
hygiainō: Be healthy or sound.
ὑγιαίνω
This verb shares the ὑγι- stem and carries the same soundness from a condition into the state of being well.
hygieia: Health, soundness.
ὑγίεια
This noun shares the stem and names the state that the word “whole” describes in the man.
יֵשׁוּעַ
Yēšūaʿ
GROWS FROM
י־ש־ע
Deliver, bring into safety; in this passage’s lens, carry from constriction toward spaciousness.
The name Jesus comes through the Hebrew form Yeshua, from the deliverance family. “By the name” therefore holds more than identification: the man’s restoration is attached to the deliverance carried in that name.
ALSO GROWS
yāšaʿ: Deliver, bring to safety.
יָשַׁע
This verb shares the root consonants and expresses the deliverance carried in the name.
yeshuʿah: Deliverance, help.
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun shares the same root and lets the man’s restoration appear as a concrete expression of deliverance.
ἤγειρεν
ēgeiren
GROWS FROM
ἐγειρ-
Raise, awaken.
“raised from the dead” in this verse is ēgeiren. The verse places God’s raising of Jesus beside the healed man’s standing before the people. The Greek verbs are from different roots, so the connection is in the sentence’s movement: the one God raises is named as the source of the man who now stands sound.
ALSO GROWS
egeirō: Raise, awaken.
ἐγείρω
This is the verb’s dictionary form and shares the declared ἐγειρ- stem.
egersis: Raising, resurrection.
ἔγερσις
This noun belongs to the same raising family and makes explicit the movement from death to life.
THE PATTERN
God’s raising turns apparent defeat into visible life and wholeness.
The stone the builders push away becomes the head of the corner.Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, Look, you have become whole. Stop missing the mark, lest something worse come to you.But if the breath of him who raised Jesus from the dead makes its home in you, then he who raised the Anointed One from the dead will also make your death-bound bodies alive through his breath that makes its home in you.THE THREAD
Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, Look, you have become whole. Stop missing the mark, lest something worse come to you.John uses the same Greek adjective, ὑγιής (hygiēs, sound or healthy), that describes the man in Acts. The shared word makes “whole” visible soundness in both scenes, while Acts ties that soundness to the name of the one God raises.
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