“For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.”
For the man who was miraculously healed was over forty years old. — the specification (tessarēkonta, forty years, a significant number in OT narrative) of the healed man's age confirms the miracle's reality; he was not a youth whose healing might be attributed to youthful vigor but a man of middle age or older. The detailed information (age 40+, crippled from birth, daily begging) provides the concrete historical grounding that makes the miracle incontestable.
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