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 causes, for the best medicines do not always succeed; as also, in that they were perfectly and suddenly cured who were thus miraculously cured, the God of nature restoring nature beyond what means and art could do.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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
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...
TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH (Acts 5:1-11)...
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...
_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...
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....
MIRACULOUS POWERS OF THE APOSTLES. CONTINUED GROWTH OF THE CHURCH...
_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...
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...
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...
See notes on verse 15...
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...
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...
5:16 who (a-23) Lit. 'who indeed.'...
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...
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...
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,...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
THE PROSPERITY OF THE CHURCH. Acts 5:12...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Acts 5:16 G1161 Also G2532 multitude G4128 gathered G4905 (G5711) surrounding G4038 cities G4172 to G1519 Jerusalem...
‘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...
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...
_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...
Acts 5:16. WITH UNCLEAN SPIRITS. The subject of ‘demoniacal possession' will be found discussed in chap. Acts 16:6....
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...
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...
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...
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.]...
_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...
_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...
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...
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,...
1 Corinthians 12:9; Acts 4:30; James 5:16; John 14:12; Luke 5:17;...