Acts 5:14

Yet more and more people believed in the Lord and were added to their number, a multitude of both men and women.

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13No one else dared to join them, but the people held them in high regard.

15As a result, people carried the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and mats, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on one of them.

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Cross References

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

Acts 4:4But many who heard the word believed, and the number of men who believed came 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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