Acts 5:14

However, many men and women came to believe in the Lord.

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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

13Nobody else dared to join them even though they were greatly respected.

15As a result, people brought those who were sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that as Peter passed by his shadow might fall on them.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:11your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your firewood and carry your water.

2 Samuel 6:19He gave all the Israelites, both men and women, a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake. Then he sent everyone home.

Nehemiah 8:2On the first day of the seventh month, Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly—men and women, and all those children who could listen and understand.

Isaiah 45:24They will say about me, “Salvation and strength can only be found in the Lord.” Everyone who has fought against him will come to him and will be ashamed.

Acts 2:41Those who accepted what he'd said were baptized, adding about three thousand people to the group of believers that day.

Acts 4:4But many who had heard the message believed it, and the total number of believers grew to 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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