Acts 4:14 (DRB)

Passage

Seeing the man also who had been healed, standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

Nearby Context

Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.

Acts 4:13 Now seeing the constancy of Peter and of John, understanding that they were illiterate and ignorant men, they wondered: and they knew them that they had been with Jesus.

Acts 4:14 Seeing the man also who had been healed, standing with them, they could say nothing against it.

Acts 4:15 But they commanded them to go aside out of the council: and they conferred among themselves,

Acts 4:16 Saying: What shall we do to these men? For indeed a miracle hath been done by them, known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. It is manifest: and we cannot deny it.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "healed", "seeing", "been", "standing", "nothing", and "against". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "healed" and "seeing", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 13's "Now seeing the constancy of Peter and..." into verse 15's "But they commanded them to go aside...", so "healed" and "seeing" belong inside that flow. In Acts context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "healed" and "seeing" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.