ACTS 5:15 At the end of the verse codex Bezae adds avphlla,ssonto ga.r avpo. pa,shj avsqenei,aj w`j ei=cen e[kastoj auvtw/n (“for they were being set free from every sickness, such as each of them ha...
Verse Acts 5:15. _INSOMUCH THAT THEY BROUGHT FORTH THE SICK_] This verse is a continuation of the subject begun in the 12th. Acts 5:12 The following is the order in which all these verses should be re...
INSOMUCH - So that. This should be connected with Acts 5:12. Many miracles were performed by the apostles, “insomuch, etc.” THEY BROUGHT FORTH - The people, or the friends of the sick, brought them f...
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
TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH (Acts 5:1-11)...
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...
INSOMUCH THAT. So that. This depends upon the first clause of Acts 5:1; Acts 5:2, all that intervenes being in. parenthesis. SICK. See note on John 11:1. INTO. along. ON. upon. App-104. COUCHES. Gr...
_Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets_ Instead of the preposition _into_, the best authorities read _even … into_, "they even brought forth," &c. These words are a description o...
ΚΑῚ ΕἸΣ for κατὰ with אABD. _Vulg_. has ‘ita ut in plateas.’ ΚΛΙΝΑΡΊΩΝ for κλινῶν with אABD. ΚΡΑΒΆΤΤΩΝ as in אABD. _Vulg_. has ‘grabatis.’ 15. ὬΣΤΕ ΚΑῚ ΕἸΣ ΤᾺΣ ΠΛΑΤΕΊΑΣ, _so that even into the stree...
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...
ΚΑΊ (G2532) даже, ΠΛΑΤΕΊΑ (G4113) улида. ΈΚΦΈΡΕΙΝ _praes. act. inf., см._ Acts 5:6. _Inf._ с ΏΣΤΕ (G5620) выражает результат, с оглядкой на общее содержание полностью, но особ. ст. 12а. (Bauernfeind)...
THAT AT LEAST THE SHADOW, &C.— The efficacy of St. Peter's shadow in curing distempers, is so far from being natural, or likely to enter into the minds of any, that nothing but the force of truth coul...
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...
15, 16. The connection of Luke's next statement, introduced by the adverb _so that,_ is somewhat obscure: but I presume he intends to state a result of all the facts just mentioned. Signs and wonders...
Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and couches that at the Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches,...
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...
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...
THE SHADOW] With this should be compared the faith of the Corinthians in the efficacy of the cloths that had touched St. Paul's body (Acts 19:12). Something of superstition probably mingled with this...
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...
INSOMUCH THAT THEY BROUGHT FORTH THE SICK... — The tense implies habitual action. For some days or weeks the sick were laid all along the streets — the broad open streets, as distinct from the lanes a...
ὥστε καὶ εἰς, “insomuch that they even,” R.V. κατὰ, T.R., so Alford, Meyer, “all down the streets,” as if the streets were entirely beset with sick folk (see Holtzmann, _in loco_). πλατείας, feminine...
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...
On... couches, meaner beds for the poorer sort. --- That Peter's shadow, &c. Thus was partly fulfilled what Christ had foretold, (John xiv. 12.) that his disciples should do even greater miracles than...
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...
15._The shadow of Peter, as he came. _The Papists abuse this text, [as a pretexts] not only to the end they may commend reigned miracles, which they say are done at the graves of martyrs, but also tha...
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...
Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets,.... These words are to be read in connection with the former part of the twelfth verse. Such miraculous cures being wrought by the apostles,...
Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid _them_ on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. Ver. 15. _The shadow o...
_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...
BEDS AND COUCHES; beds were used by the rich, and couches by the poor....
INSOMUCH THAT THEY BROUGHT FORTH THE SICK INTO THE STREETS, AND LAID THEM ON BEDS AND COUCHES, THAT AT THE LEAST THE SHADOW OF PETER PASSING BY MIGHT OVERSHADOW SOME OF THEM....
THE PROSPERITY OF THE CHURCH. Acts 5:12...
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...
SO THAT THEY BROUGHT THE SICK OUT INTO THE STREETS AND LAID _THEM_ ON BEDS AND COUCHES, THAT AT LEAST THE SHADOW OF PETER PASSING BY MIGHT FALL ON SOME OF THEM. 1. Many superstitions have arisen from...
INTO THE STREETS: Or, in every street...
insomuch that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that, as Peter came by, at the least his shadow might overshadow some one of them. 'INSOMUCH THAT'-Her...
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...
INTO THE STREETS; into every street generally taken, it being a common practice where they came, and not in one street only. These weak and unlikely means did more show the power to be of God, and was...
15, 16. The connection of Luke's next statement, introduced by the adverb _so that,_ is somewhat obscure: but I presume he intends to state a result of all the facts just mentioned. Signs and wonders...
Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas Some also they laid on the road by which he was to pass, and he healed them all by the power of the Lord.[61]...
Acts 5:15 so G5620 brought G1627 (G5721) sick G772 into G2596 streets G4113 and G2532 laid G5087 ...
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...
‘And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women, insomuch that they even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that, as Peter came...
Acts 5:15. INTO THE STREETS. Those between the apostles' house and the Temple. The whole scene of growing admiration and respect for the persons of these brave and earnest teachers, who enforced their...
_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...
INSOMUCH THAT (ωστε). With the present infinitive εκφερειν and τιθενα, regular Greek idiom for result.INTO THE STREETS (εις τας πλατειας). Supply οδους (ways), into the broad ways.ON BEDS AND COU...
Acts 5:15 St. Peter's Shadow I. The first idea suggested by the text is that of a superstitious reliance of the multitude upon the person of St. Peter, operating as a charm upon those brought into ju...
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...
_Inasmuch that they brought forth the sick._ ., that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow them. THE SHADOW OF PETER The miracles of Christ and His apostles were mainly miracles o...
_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,...
Acts 19:11; Acts 19:12; John 14:12; Matthew 14:36; Matthew 9:21...
Couches [κ ρ α β β α τ ω ν]. See on Mark 2:4. The shadow of Peter passing by. But the proper rendering is, as Peter passed by, his shadow might, etc. 13...