Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 4:30

"while thy stretchest forth thy hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of thy holy Servant Jesus." — Acts 4:30 (ASV)

By stretching forth thine hand to heal.—There seems something like an intentional assonance in the Greek words which St. Luke uses—iâsis (healing) and Jesus (pronounced Iesus)—as though he would indicate that the very name of Jesus witnessed to His being the great Healer. A like instance of the nomen et omen idea is found in the identification by Tertullian (Apology, chapter 3) of Christos and Chrestos (good, or gracious), of which we have, perhaps, a foreshadowing in 1 Peter 2:3. (Compare also Acts 9:34.)

Thy holy child Jesus.—Better, as before, Servant. (See Note on Acts 3:13.)