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as You stretch out Your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.”
Acts 4:30 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”
  • KJV By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.
  • NKJV by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
  • NASB while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders take place through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”
  • NLT Stretch out your hand with healing power; may miraculous signs and wonders be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

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Quick answer

They pray that God would stretch out his hand to heal and to do signs and wonders through the name of Jesus. They seek confirmation of the gospel through God's power.

Overview

The believers ask God himself to act, attributing all healing and miraculous signs to his power working through the name of Jesus. Their request keeps the focus on God's glory and the spread of his word. These signs served to authenticate the apostolic message in the church's foundational era. The prayer reflects confidence that the risen Christ continues his saving work through his people.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Acts 4:27In fact, this is the very city where Herod and Pontius Pilate conspired with the Gentiles and the people of Israel against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed.
  • Acts 3:6But Peter said, “Silver or gold I do not have, but what I have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk!”
  • Acts 5:12The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.
  • Acts 9:40–42Then Peter sent them all out of the room. He knelt down and prayed, and turning toward her body, he said, “Tabitha, get up!” She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter, she sat up.
  • Acts 3:16By faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you see and know has been made strong. It is Jesus’ name and the faith that comes through Him that has given him this complete healing in your presence.
  • Acts 2:22Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.
  • Acts 2:43A sense of awe came over everyone, and the apostles performed many wonders and signs.
  • Jer 15:15You understand, O LORD; remember me and attend to me. Avenge me against my persecutors. In Your patience, do not take me away. Know that I endure reproach for Your honor.
  • Luke 9:54–56When the disciples James and John saw this, they asked, “Lord, do You want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?”
  • Acts 5:15–16As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
  • Acts 9:34–35“Aeneas,” Peter said to him, “Jesus Christ heals you! Get up and put away your mat.” Immediately Aeneas got up,
  • Acts 6:8Now Stephen, who was full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people.
  • Jer 20:11–12But the LORD is with me like a fearsome warrior. Therefore, my persecutors will stumble and will not prevail. Since they have not succeeded, they will be utterly put to shame, with an everlasting disgrace that will never be forgotten.
  • Deut 4:34Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
  • Exod 6:6Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
  • Luke 22:49–51Those around Jesus saw what was about to happen and said, “Lord, should we strike with our swords?”
  • Acts 4:10then let this be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed.
  • John 4:48Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”

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Christ at the center

Acts is the risen Christ continuing his work by the Spirit through the church, as the apostles preach that there is salvation in no other name under heaven.

How Acts 4:30 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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