Atti 4:14

14 E veggendo quell’uomo ch’era stato guarito quivi presente con loro, non potevano dir nulla incontro.

Atti 4:14 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 4:14

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.

Atti 4:14 In-Context

12 E in niun altro è la salute; poichè non vi è alcun altro nome sotto il cielo, che sia dato agli uomini, per lo quale ci convenga esser salvati.

13 Or essi, veduta la franchezza di Pietro e di Giovanni; ed avendo inteso ch’erano uomini senza lettere, e idioti, si maravigliavano, e riconoscevan bene che erano stati con Gesù.

14 E veggendo quell’uomo ch’era stato guarito quivi presente con loro, non potevano dir nulla incontro.

15 Ed avendo lor comandato di uscire dal concistoro, conferivan fra loro, dicendo:

16 Che faremo a questi uomini? poichè egli è noto a tutti gli abitanti di Gerusalemme che un evidente miracolo è da loro stato fatto; e noi nol possiamo negare.