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.
Acts 4:14
