Acts 5:14

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 parenthesis within which this verse and the preceding one, with the latter clause of , are placed in the King James Version, is both unnecessary and injurious to the sense, as it connects what follows the parenthesis with the first part of ; whereas it is meant as a result also of all that comes after it. 'The childhood of the Church at this period (says Humphry, not incorrectly) may be compared with that of its Divine Founder, who increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.'