Acts 5:16

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 MULTITUDE OUT OF THE CITIES ROUND ABOUT, [ to (G3588) pleethos (G4128) toon (G3588) perix (G4038) poleoon (G4172)] - rather, 'the population of the surrounding towns,' UNTO JERUSALEM, BRINGING SICK FOLKS, AND THEM WHICH WERE VEXED WITH UNCLEAN SPIRITS: AND THEY WERE HEALED EVERY ONE. Now did the predicted greatness of Peter, as the directing spirit of th...

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 church, promotes its enlargement; but that power alone which wrought such miracles by the apostles, can rescue sinners from the power of sin and Satan, and add believers to His worshippers. Christ will work by all his faithful servants; and every one who applies to him shall be healed....

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 therefore they were not one and the same thing. The same distinction is made Matthew 4:24; Matthew 10:1; Mark 1:32, Mark 1:34; Mark 16:17; and Luke 4:40;...

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 - Possessed with devils; called “unclean” because they prompted to sin and impurity of life. See the notes on Matthew 4:23. AND THEY WERE HEALED - Of these persons it is expressly affirmed that they were healed. Of those who were so laid as that the shadow of Peter might pass over them, there is no such direct affirmation....

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 היָנְנַהֲ_, Hananiah _(God is gracious), is also rendered in the LXX. Ananias (Ἀνανίας), and is doubtless the name meant here and in Acts 9:10; Acts 23:2, etc. SAPPHIRA does not occur elsewhere. It is either derived from the Aramean הרָיפָשַׁ, beautiful, or from the Hebrew ריפִסַ, a sapphire. A POSSESSION (see...

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 large numbers of people came from thence, UNTO JERUSALEM; where the apostles were: the Syriac version adds, "unto them", that is, to the apostles; and the Arabic version, "with them"; along with those of the city of Jerusalem, who brought out their infirm persons into the streets to be cured: BRINGING SICK FOLKS, AND THEM WHICH WERE VEXED WITH UNCLEAN SPIRITS; with devils, by whom they were not only possessed, but greatly harassed and afflicted: sometimes tearing and convulsing them, and sometimes throwing them on the ground, and bruising them; or into fire and water, of which there are some instances in the evangelists: AND THEY WERE HEALED EVERYONE; none went without a cure, which served gr...

ACTS 5:16 VIerousalh,m {B} Not observing that pe,rix governs VIerousalh,m, 136 most copyists understood tw/n pe,rix po,lewn as “the surrounding cities” and therefore added eivj or evn before VIerousalh,m. ------------------------- 136 On the separation of a preposition from the word it governs, see Schöne in _Hermes,_ LX (1925), pp. 167 f., and Blass-Debrunner-Funk, § 474, 8....

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 (Acts 5:26). 5. Gamaliel's Advice (Acts 5:34). 6. The Apostles beaten and dismissed (Acts 5:40). With this chapter the scene changes. Beautiful is the ending of the previous chapter, Barnabas having sold his land, laid the money at the feet of the Apostles. He

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. In Acts 2:43 we read that many wonders and signs were wrought by the apostles, but only two have been placed before us in detail. The statement is here repeated and introduces a picture of the healing activity, especially of Peter, touches in which remind us of the Gospels (Mark 2:1;...

TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH (Acts 5:1-11)...