Acts 4:14
Seeing the man also who had been healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- hominem quoque videntes stantem cum eis, qui curatus fuerat, nihil poterant contradicere.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- τόν τε ἄνθρωπον βλέποντες σὺν αὐτοῖς ἑστῶτα τὸν τεθεραπευμένον οὐδὲν εἶχον ἀντειπεῖν.
The Fathers on this verse
St John Chrysostom A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles, Homily X on Acts iv. 1
“Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.” ( v. 13 .) The two unlearned men beat down with their rhetoric them and the chief priests. For it was not they that spake, but the grace of the Spirit. “And beholding the man which was healed standing with them, they could say nothing against it.” ( v. 14 .) Great was the boldness of the man; that even in the judgment-hall he has not left them. For had they said that the fact was not so, there was he to refute them. “But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves, saying, What are we to do to these men?” ( v. 15 .) See the difficulty they are in, and how the fear of men again does everything. …