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Acts 5:14
And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,)
And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,)
Verse Acts 5:14. _AND BELIEVERS WERE THE MORE ADDED TO THE LORD_] Believers: 1. Those who credited the Divine mission of Christ. 2. That he was the Messiah. 3. That he died for their sins. 4. That...
AND BELIEVERS - This is the name by which Christians were designated, because one of the main things that distinguished them was that they “believed” that Jesus was the Christ. It is also an incidenta...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1)._ 2. Signs and wonders by the Apostles (Acts 5:11). 3. The second arrest of the Apostles and their Deliverance (Acts 5:17). 4. Before the Council ...
APOSTOLIC SIGNS AND CURES. In the AV Acts 5:12 _b_ - Acts 5:14 are rightly bracketed; the verses are an editorial addition. Acts 5:12_ a_ connects with Acts 5:15. I
TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH (Acts 5:1-11)...
Many signs and wonders were done among the people through the hands of the apostles; and they were all together in Solomon's colonnade. Of the others no one dared to meddle with them. But the people h...
BELIEVERS. believing (ones). App-150. MULTITUDES. Greek. _ptethos._ WOMEN. Compare Acts 1:14....
_And believers were the more added to the Lord_ In the Greek it is clearly seen that the words rendered _to the Lord_belong quite as closely to _believers_as to _were added_. "Persons believing in the...
ΠΡΟΣΕΤΊΘΕΝΤΟ, _were added_. And the tense implies the continuous growth of the Church. The addition of this verse makes clear what has just been said about the sense of κολλᾶσθαι, that it implied insi...
MIRACULOUS POWERS OF THE APOSTLES. CONTINUED GROWTH OF THE CHURCH...
_THE POWER OF A PURIFIED CHURCH ACTS 5:12-25:_ During this period of progress for the church miracles were worked by the apostles. The people were fearful of the apostles. Amazingly, the result was gr...
ΜΆΛΛΟΝ (G3123) еще больше (Barrett), ΠΡΟΣΕΤΊΘΕΝΤΟ _impf. ind. pass. от_ ΠΡΟΣΤΊΘΗΜΙ (G4369) добавлять к чему-л. _Impf._ изображает повторяющееся действие, ΚΥΡΊΩ _dat. sing. от_ ΚΎΡΙΟΣ (G2962) Господь...
ON SOLOMON'S PORCH. ACTS 5:12-16. Acts 5:12 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. Acts 5:13 Bu...
14. The statement just made, that "of the rest no man dared to join himself to them," can not mean that persons dared not join the Church, for the reverse is now stated. (14) "_And believers were the...
And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) AND BELIEVERS (VISIBLE CONVERTS), WERE THE MORE ADDED TO THE LORD, MULTITUDES BOTH OF MEN AND WOMEN. The parenthe...
14 The fear of the drawn sword in the King's hand will repress evil and rebellion. The prayer of the disciples, after the threats of the Sanhedrin, seems to have been abundantly answered. Not only was...
THE APOSTLES AGAIN IMPRISONED 1-16. The sin of Ananias and Sapphira was not keeping back part of the price, which they had a perfect right to do (Acts 5:4), but pretending that the money which they of...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 5 ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA, 5:1-11 V1 But there was a man whose name was Ananias. He and his wife, Sapphira, sold a building and some land. The bui...
ADDED TO THE LORD. — Here, probably, the word is used in its definite New Testament sense for the Lord Jesus. BOTH OF MEN AND WOMEN. — The mention of the latter forms an introduction to the dissension...
μᾶλλον δέ προσετίθεντο : the favour of the people which still protected the Church (_cf._ Acts 5:17) resulted in further increase of believers, “were the more added,” _um so mehr_; imperfect, signifyi...
DELIVERED TO TESTIFY Acts 5:12-26 While the Holy Spirit works mightily _within_ the Church, He co-operates with it in its _outward_ operations by adding men and women to the Lord. None should be adde...
Here we have a terrible story. The account of Ananias and Sapphira stands in vivid contrast to that of Barnabas. The sin was dishonest dealing with the Holy Spirit. The judgment was swift and terrible...
And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things. (12) And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
_A PROPHECY FULFILLED_ ‘By the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people (… and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)’ Acts 5...
Alas! evil shews itself there also (Chapter 5). If the mighty Spirit of God is there, the flesh also is there. There are some who wished to have the credit of devotedness which the Holy Ghost produces...
AND BELIEVERS WERE THE MORE ADDED TO THE LORD,.... That is, to the church, as in Acts 2:47 over which Christ was Lord and head; for they were added to the Lord before, by believing in him, when they g...
And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) Ver. 14. _And believers were the more added_] So little lost the Church by that dreadful doom that befell Ananias and...
_And of the rest_ Who were not really converted to Christianity; _durst_ Or _presumed; no man_ to _join himself to them_ As, had it not been for the late signal judgment, some hypocrites might have at...
THE MORE; greater numbers in consequence received the gospel, being persuaded that it was from God. The Holy Spirit may make the destruction of some the occasion of the salvation of others. When it is...
Where God is working, however, the opposition of Satan soon becomes apparent. The evil begins (as evil always does) in an underhand manner, but is quickly exposed by God. Ananias and Sapphira certainl...
AND BELIEVERS WERE INCREASINGLY ADDED TO THE LORD, MULTITUDES OF BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, 1. Increasingly - more were added - not by ones, or tens, or even hundreds. But multitudes. How many is a multitud...
and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women; 'WERE THE MORE ADDED'-'Imperfect, signifying the continuous growth of the Church.' (Gr. Ex. N.T. p. 146) 'were constan...
12-16 The separation of hypocrites by distinguishing judgments, should make the sincere cleave closer to each other and to the gospel ministry. Whatever tends to the purity and reputation of the churc...
This explains the former verse, and helps us against mistaking it, for this wonderful judgment was so far from being a hinderance to the men of the gospel, that it is turned to the furtherance of it;...
14. The statement just made, that "of the rest no man dared to join himself to them," can not mean that persons dared not join the Church, for the reverse is now stated. (14) "_ And believers were the...
Acts 5:14 And G1161 believers G4100 (G5723) increasingly G3123 added G4369 (G5712) Lord G2962 multitudes G4128 both...
‘And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women, insomuch that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that, as Peter came...
THE KINGLY RULE OF GOD IS REVEALED AS PRESENT IN GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS (5:12-16). What followed from Satan's failure to cut at the root of the revival through Ananias and Sapphira, was an expansion...
_A Further Picture of the Progress of the Church. The Power of St. Peter in those First Days,_ 12-16. The relations of the little Church towards the _outside_ world are now dwelt on. Already we have s...
Acts 5:14. AND BELIEVERS WERE THE MORE ADDED TO THE LORD. This statement confirms the exposition given above of the words, ‘Of the rest durst no man join himself to them.' A sense of religious awe kep...
WERE THE MORE ADDED (μαλλον προσετιθεντο). Rather (μαλλον) instead of decrease as one might expect. Imperfect passive indicative of προστιθημ common μ verb, kept on being added.BOTH OF MEN AND WOME...
CONTENTS: Sin and death of Ananias and Sapphira. The second persecution and answer of apostles to their persecutors. Warning of Gamaliel. Apostles beaten. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ananias, Sapph...
Acts 5:3. _Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost._ These words not only indicate that Ananias was a minister of the word, but that he for once had yielded his heart to th...
MANY MIRACLES AND WONDERS. Note it is the apostles who are said to have this power. Not everyone was given the gift of miracles. MET TOGETHER IN A GROUP. See Acts 2:46; Hebrews 10:25. NOBODY OUTSIDE T...
_And great fear came upon all the Church._ AFTER JUDGMENT, REVIVAL The case of Ananias served several important ends. I. It bore a very emphatic testimony to truth. Falsehood in the world was a grea...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 5:12. AMONG THE PEOPLE.—_I.e._, the population of Jerusalem. ALL.—Either all the apostles, THE REST being believers and unbelievers (Alford, Olshausen, Hackett), or more likel...
EXPOSITION ACTS 5:1 ANANIAS (Ἀνανίας) In Nehemiah 3:23 the Hebrew name היָנְנַעֲ (God covers or protects) is thus rendered in the LXX. But the name occurs nowhere else. The very common name היָנְנ...
Chapter 5, the book of Acts. At the end of the fourth chapter we have the second mention of the early pure communism that was practiced in the first church. Where those who had possessions sold them,...
1 Corinthians 11:11; 1 Corinthians 11:12; 2 Samuel 6:19; Acts 2:41;...
Were added [π ρ ο σ ε τ ι θ ε ν τ ο]. Imperfect : kept being added....
But so much the more were true believers added, because unbelievers kept at a distance....