Acts 2:47

And the Lord] RV 'And the Lord added to them' (RM 'together') 'day by day those that were being saved,' i.e. conscious of sin and seeking salvation.

The Love-Feast

It is clear from Acts 2:46, and 1 Corinthians 11:20. that Holy Communion was at first celebrated in connexion with a common meal called agapé, i.e. 'love-feast,' or 'feast of charity' (Judges 1:12). Our Lord had instituted the Sacrament at the close of a sacred banquet, and the Apostolic Church at first naturally followed His example. The feast was an afternoon or evening meal, at which rich and poor met together in the church, the food and drink being provided mainly by the rich. Prayers and benedictions, similar to those of the Jews, were said over each dish or course, and 'the kiss of charity' (1 Peter 5:14) probably concluded the meal. Then hands were washed, and there followed prayer and sacred psalmody under the leadership of a prophet or other minister. 'The breaking of bread,' or Holy Communion, seems to have followed (not preceded) the agapé (1 Corinthians 11:21; 1 Corinthians 11:25) and the agapé and the Holy Communion were regarded as forming one service, called 'the Lord's Supper' (1 Corinthians 11:20). The abuses to which this arrangement gave rise (see 1 Corinthians 11), led, somewhat late in the apostolic age, to the gradual separation of the two rites. Already in the time of Pliny (115 a.d.) the Holy Communion was celebrated in the morning, and the agapé' in the evening; and Justin Martyr (150 a.d.), in describing the Holy Communion, makes no allusion to the agapé, which was by that time an entirely separate ordinance.

The Establishment and Progress of the Church at Jerusalem (Acts 1:1 to Acts 8:3)

The Acts of the Apostles] A more adequate title would be 'The Acts of Peter and Paul,' the Acts of Peter extending from Acts 1-12, and the Acts of Paul from Acts 13-28.