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Verse Acts 5:16. _SICK FOLKS, AND THEM WHICH WERE VEXED WITH UNCLEAN_
_SPIRITS_] Here it is evident that _sick people_ are distinguished
from those who were _vexed with unclean spirits_; and therefor...
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THERE CAME ALSO ... - Attracted by the fame of Peter’s miracles, as
the people formerly had been by the miracles of the Lord Jesus.
VEXED - Troubled, afflicted, or tormented.
UNCLEAN SPIRITS - Posses...
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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 ...
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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
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TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH (Acts 5:1-11)...
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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...
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ALSO, &C.. a multitude also.
ROUND ABOUT. Greek. _perix._ Only here.
UNTO. App-104.
VEXED. beset. Greek. _ochleo,_ to crowd. Only here and Luke 6:18. A
medical word.
WITH. by. App-104.
SPIRITS. A...
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_There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto
Jerusalem_ The best MSS. have no word for _unto_. The construction
without that preposition would be _and there came also together the
m...
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εἰς omitted with אAB. The _Vulg_. has no preposition.
16. ΤῸ ΠΛΗ͂ΘΟΣ Κ.Τ.Λ., _the multitude of the cities round
about_. The word πόλις is not unfrequently used of places which
are comparatively small....
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MIRACULOUS POWERS OF THE APOSTLES. CONTINUED GROWTH OF THE CHURCH...
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_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...
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ΣΥΝΉΡΧΕΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΣΥΝΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ
(G4905) приходить вместе. _Impf._ изображает
повторяющееся действие в прошлом,
ΠΈΡΙΞ (G4038) _adv._ вокруг,
ΦΈΡΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΦΈΡΩ (G53...
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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...
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See notes on verse 15...
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There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto
Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean
spirits: and they were healed every one.
THERE CAME ALSO A MULT...
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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...
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5:16 who (a-23) Lit. 'who indeed.'...
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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...
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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...
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THERE CAME ALSO A MULTITUDE. — Here also the tense points to a
continual and daily concourse. The work of expansion is beginning. The
“cities round about” may have included Hebron, Bethlehem, Emmaus,...
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δὲ καὶ : very common in St. Luke, Luke 2:4; Luke 3:9; Luke
5:10; Luke 9:61; Luke 14:12, etc., and also ni
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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...
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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...
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DIVINE HEALING
15, 16. While the revival tide is inundating Jerusalem and rolling
into the surrounding country like an ever-widening sea, we see as in
all ages a corresponding prominence given to div...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THERE CAME ALSO A MULTITUDE OUT OF THE CITIES ROUND ABOUT,.... The
fame of the apostles' miracles spread in the cities round about
Jerusalem; those that were at some distance as well as near, and larg...
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There came also a multitude _out_ of the cities round about unto
Jerusalem, bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean
spirits: and they were healed every one.
Ver. 16. _And they wer...
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_Insomuch_, or so _that, they brought the sick into the streets,_ &c.
The contents of this and the following verse are evidently connected
with the former part of Acts 5:12; the intermediate paragraph...
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THERE CAME ALSO A MULTITUDE OUT OF THE CITIES ROUND ABOUT UNTO
JERUSALEM, BRINGING SICK FOLKS, AND THEM WHICH WERE VEXED WITH UNCLEAN
SPIRITS; AND THEY WERE HEALED, EVERY ONE.
The activity of the apos...
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THE PROSPERITY OF THE CHURCH. Acts 5:12...
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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...
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ALSO A MULTITUDE GATHERED FROM THE SURROUNDING CITIES TO JERUSALEM,
BRINGING SICK PEOPLE AND THOSE WHO WERE TORMENTED BY UNCLEAN SPIRITS,
AND THEY WERE ALL HEALED.
1. The word is spreading rapidly. N...
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And there also came together the multitudes from the cities round
about Jerusalem, bring sick folk, and them that were vexed with
unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.
'CITIES ROUND ABOUT J...
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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...
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The variety and grievousness of these evils did but the more commend
the power which was present with the apostles. THEY WERE HEALED EVERY
ONE; an evidence that these cures were not wrought by second...
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Acts 5:16 G1161 Also G2532 multitude G4128 gathered G4905 (G5711)
surrounding G4038 cities G4172 to G1519 Jerusalem...
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‘And there also came together the multitudes from the cities round
about Jerusalem, bringing sick folk, and those who were vexed with
unclean spirits, and they were healed every one.'
And people thron...
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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...
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_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...
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Acts 5:16. WITH UNCLEAN SPIRITS. The subject of ‘demoniacal
possession' will be found discussed in chap. Acts 16:6....
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CAME TOGETHER
(συνηρχετο). Imperfect middle, kept on coming.ROUND ABOUT
(περιξ). Old adverb, strengthened form of περ, only here in
the N.T.VEXED
(οχλουμενους). Present passive participle of οχ...
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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...
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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...
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THE SICK PEOPLE WERE CARRIED OUT. We are not told that any were healed
by Peter's shadow. The point is the fame and popularity these things
brought to the apostles. [Compare Acts 19:11-12.]...
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_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...
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_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...
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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...
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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,...
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1 Corinthians 12:9; Acts 4:30; James 5:16; John 14:12; Luke 5:17;...