Teks -- Acts 4:14 (NET)

4:14 And because they saw the man who had been healed standing with them, they had nothing to say against this.

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Robertson: Act 4:14 - They could say nothing against it

They could say nothing against it ( ouden eichon anteipein ).

Imperfect again, they kept on having nothing to say against it. The lame man was standing there before their eyes in proof of what Peter had said.

JFB: Act 4:13-17 - perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men

That is, uninstructed in the learning of the Jewish schools, and of the common sort; men in private life, untrained to teaching.

JFB: Act 4:13-17 - took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus

Recognized them as having been in His company; remembering possibly, that they had seen them with Him [MEYER, BLOOMFIELD, ALFORD]; but, more probably, perceiving in their whole bearing what identified them with Jesus: that is, "We thought we had got rid of Him; but lo! He reappears in these men, and all that troubled us in the Nazarene Himself has yet to be put down in these His disciples." What a testimony to these primitive witnesses! Would that the same could be said of their successors!

Clarke: Act 4:14 - They could say nothing against it

They could say nothing against it - They could not gainsay the apostolic doctrine, for that was supported by the miraculous fact before them. If the doctrine be false, the man cannot have been miraculously healed: if the man be miraculously healed, then the doctrine must be true that it is by the name of Jesus of Nazareth that he has been healed. But the man is incontestably healed; therefore the doctrine is true.

Defender: Act 4:14 - nothing against it

Intellectual or philosophical arguments are silenced when confronted with direct evidence of the power of the gospel."

TSK: Act 4:14 - beholding // they

beholding : Act 4:10, Act 3:8-12

they : Act 4:16, Act 4:21, Act 19:36

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Poole: Act 4:14 - Standing // They could say nothing against it

Standing whereas, before he was either carried, or was forced to lay down.

They could say nothing against it they could not deny but that it was a good deed, and that it was miraculously done.

Gill: Act 4:14 - And beholding the man which was healed // standing with them // they could say nothing against it

And beholding the man which was healed,.... Who either was taken into custody, and brought before the sanhedrim, along with the apostles; or rather, who came here of his own accord to be witness for them: for he was

standing with them; in company with them, and close by them, and on their side; and so they could, and did point and appeal unto him, who was ready to justify, that it was not by the use of medicine, or of magic art, or in the name of Satan or Beelzebub, but by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, that his cure was wrought:

they could say nothing against it; they could not gainsay the fact, for the man was before them, perfectly well, whom they personally knew, by his lying so long at the gate of the temple; they knew that he had been lame from his mother's womb, who was now above forty years of age; and they could say nothing against the manner of his cure, who was present to attest it; nor could they say anything against them; the apostles, as the Syriac, Arabic, and Ethiopic versions read; they could not blame them for doing it, it being a good deed, nor charge them with fraud and imposture.