What Does Acts 4:9 Mean in the King James?
If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;
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 word translated “made whole” here is also translated “saved” moments later: deliverance is visible as restored wholeness.
THE MEANING
A man stands whole, and the good done for him is what brings Peter and John under examination. The verse holds bodily restoration and deliverance together: what once kept this person in weakness no longer defines what is possible for him now.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that bodily healing and deliverance are separate kinds of restoration; the same word names both.
THE ROOT
σέσωται
sesōtai
GROWS FROM
σῴζω (sōzō), σωζ-
To rescue, deliver, preserve, or make well.
The verb translated “made whole” also carries the sense of being delivered or saved. English can make healing and deliverance sound like separate events, while this word holds them together: the rescue is visible in the man’s restored condition.
ALSO GROWS
sōtēria: deliverance, salvation
σωτηρία
This related noun carries the same rescue language into the broader idea of deliverance.
sōtēr: deliverer, savior
σωτήρ
This related word names one who rescues, echoing the verse’s question about how the man has been made whole.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance becomes visible as restoration, whether it heals a body, rescues someone from destruction, or brings salvation.
He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.THE THREAD
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.The final word translated “saved” comes from the same verb rendered “made whole” in Acts 4:9. Peter’s answer keeps the man’s bodily restoration and the wider language of deliverance within one word-family.
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