Acts 5:14

Believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

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In The King James Version

And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

In Context

13None of the rest dared to join them, but the people were magnifying them.

15to the point that they kept carrying the sick into the streets, placing them on cots and pallets, so that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

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Cross References

Acts 2:41Then those who gladly received his word were baptized, and that day about three thousand souls were added.

Acts 4:4(However, many of those who heard the message believed; the number of the men came to be about five thousand.)

Matthew Henry on Acts 5:13-17

The Progress of the Gospel. 12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch. 13 And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them. 14 And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) 15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of… Read the whole commentary →

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