What Does Acts 4:22 Mean in the King James?

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

Acts 4:22 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The healed man himself becomes the sign: restoration is visible in the person it touches.

THE MEANING

The verse places the man’s age beside the healing shown on him, making the restoration concrete and visible. Healing here is not only reported; the person himself is where the sign can be seen.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the assumption that a visible condition is necessarily permanent.

THE ROOT

ἰάσεως

iaseōs

GROWS FROM

ἰα-

The Greek ⁨ἰα-⁩ word family centers on healing or curing.

The word translated “healing” is ⁨ἴασις⁩ (iasis, healing), from the same family as ⁨ἰάομαι⁩ (iaomai, to heal). English gives the restoration a noun, while the related verb shows the same root in action: healing is something that happens to a person, and here it becomes visible as a sign.

ALSO GROWS

iaomai: to heal, to cure

ἰάομαι

This verb names the healing action behind the noun in Acts 4:22.

iasis: healing, cure

ἴασις

This is the noun used in the verse, naming the restoration shown on the man.

THE PATTERN

When restoration becomes visible, the changed life itself can serve as a sign.

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

Isaiah 35:6 · KJVThe changed body and the waters in the wilderness make restoration visible in places marked by lack.

And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

John 9:7 · KJVThe man’s changed sight is something others can observe, just as the healed man in Acts becomes a visible sign.

And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

Acts 3:16 · KJVThe verse points to the man’s visible strength and soundness as evidence others can see.

THE THREAD

And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.

Luke 9:11 · KJV

Luke 9:11 uses ⁨ἰάομαι⁩ (iaomai, to heal), from the same Greek word family as ⁨ἴασις⁩ (iasis, healing) in Acts 4:22. The noun names healing as a sign; the verb shows that same root in motion.

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