If we this day be examined of the good deed
Or "seeing" we are; for it was not a matter of doubt, but a clear
case, that they were brought into court, and were passing under
an examination, about the cure of the lame man; which the apostle
rightly calls a
good deed,
it being done in faith, and to the glory of God, and for the good
of the man; and hereby tacitly suggests, that they were dealt
very hardly with, to be seized and kept in custody, and be called
in question, for doing an action so beneficent and kind, as this
was, which was
done to the impotent man;
who could not help himself, nor get his bread any other way, than
by begging:
by what means he is made whole;
restored to perfect health, and the proper use of his limbs; that
is, by what power, and in what name this was done; the answer is
ready, and it is as follows.
