Acts 5:14

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 kept the crowds who thronged the Temple courts and the people generally from intruding upon them and disturbing them when they met together; but multitudes of both sexes, impressed with the truth of what the apostles were preaching, kept joining the ranks of the believers, and were added to the Lord. The numbers were now so great that the historian of the Acts no longer gives them, as had been his practice on each of the three previous descriptions of the Church's progress, chap. Acts 1:15; Acts 2:41; Acts 4:4.

Multitudes both of men and women. This is one of several special mentions in the history of the early Church of women.