Acts 4:9 - Exposition

Are for be, A.V.; concerning a ( good deed ) for of the, A.V.; an ( impotent ) for the, A.V.; this man for he, A.V. We; eraphatic, probably in response to the emphatic "you" at the end of Acts 4:7 . An impotent man . The following οὗτος , this man , makes it necessary to supply the definite article, as the A.V. has done. St. Peter alludes to the good deed, i.e. the benefit done to the lame man, being the subject of a criminal inquiry, as a tacit condemnation of the unrighteousness of such a course.