Acts 4:30 (WEB)

Passage

while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

Nearby Context

Acts 4:28 to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Acts 4:29 Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,

Acts 4:30 while you stretch out your hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy Servant Jesus.”

Acts 4:31 When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were gathered together. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.

Acts 4:32 The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 29's "Now Lord look at their threats and..." into verse 31's "When they had prayed the place was...", so "stretch" 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 "stretch" and "hand" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.