For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.

For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was wrought.

For the man was above forty years old, in whom that miraculous cure had been wrought.

for the man on whom this sign of healing had taken place was above forty years old.

For the man was above forty years old on whom this miracle of healing was performed.

for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.

For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was showed.

For the man was over forty years of age on whom this miracle of restoration to health had been performed.

For the man on whom this act of power was done was more than forty years old.

For the man in whom this sign of a cure had been accomplished was more than forty years old.

for the man who was the subject of this miraculous cure was more than forty years old.

For the man - The age of the man is mentioned to show the certainty and greatness of the miracle. If it had been a man who had been lame but a few years, or if it had been a child or a very young man, the case would not been so remarkable. But after a continuance of 40 years, all hope of healing him by any ordinary means must have been abandoned, and all pretence that this was jugglery or deception must have been absurd.

The man was above forty years old - The disease was of long standing, and consequently the more inveterate; but all difficulties, small or great, yield equally to the sovereign power of God. It is as easy with God to convert a sinner of forty or four-score, as one of ten years old. But he who now refuses to obey the call of God has neither reason nor revelation to support himself even in the most distant hope that he shall get, in a future time, the salvation which he rejects in the present.

For the man was above forty years old,.... So that the miracle was the greater, that a man born lame, and who had been so above forty years, should have a cure; and he was the more known to the people, and his testimony met with more credit:
on whom this miracle of healing was showed; both for the good of men, for the glory of God, and for the confirmation of the Gospel of Christ.