Acts 4:4

Acts 4:4. Many of thorn which heard the word believed. In sharp contrast to the arrest and persecution of the two leaders by the influential party in the state, the compiler of the ‘Acts' notices, that though the rulers refused to hear, yet many of those who looked on the strange scene that afternoon in the Temple courts believed the message of Christ.

And the number of the men was about five thousand. The word translated ‘men' no doubt included men and women. Some commentators would restrict the term to men only; Hackett, however, well observes: ‘An emphasized or conscious restriction of the term to men would be at variance with that religious equality of the sexes so distinctly affirmed in the New Testament' (Galatians 3:28).