Acts 4:30 (LSB)

Passage

while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders happen through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”

Nearby Context

Acts 4:28 to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.

Acts 4:29 And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that Your slaves may speak Your word with all confidence,

Acts 4:30 while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders happen through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.”

Acts 4:31 And when they had prayed earnestly, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with confidence.

Acts 4:32 And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and not one was saying that any of his possessions was his own, but, for them, everything was common.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "extend", "hand", "heal", "signs", "wonders", "happen", "through", and "name". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "extend" and "hand", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 29's "And now Lord take note of their..." into verse 31's "And when they had prayed earnestly the...", so "extend" and "hand" 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 "extend" and "hand" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.