For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was showed.
For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was showed.
For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was wrought.
For the man on whom this act of power was done was more than forty years old.
For the man was above forty years old on whom this miracle of healing was performed.
For the man on whom this miracle of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was wrought.
The man was above forty years old - The disease was of long standing, and consequently the more inveterate; but all difficulties, small or great, yield equally to the sovereign power of God. It is as easy with God to convert a sinner of forty or four-score, as one of ten years old. But he who now refuses to obey the call of God has neither reason nor revelation to support himself even in the most distant hope that he shall get, in a future time, the salvation which he rejects in the present.
For the man ... - The age of the man is mentioned to show the certainty and greatness of the miracle. If it had been a man who had been lame but a few years, or if it had been a child or a very young man, the case would not been so remarkable. But after a continuance of 40 years, all hope of healing him by any ordinary means must have been abandoned, and all pretence that this was jugglery or deception must have been absurd.