Vincent's Word Studies in the NT
Acts 5:12
Were wrought [ε γ ε ν ε τ ο]. The best texts read ejgineto, the imperfect, were being wrought from time to time.
All. The whole body of believers.
Were wrought [ε γ ε ν ε τ ο]. The best texts read ejgineto, the imperfect, were being wrought from time to time.
All. The whole body of believers.
ACTS 5:12 a[pantej After a[pantej several witnesses add evn tw|/ i`erw|/ (D 42 copsa,G67 eth _al_). This is clearly an interpolation (which even Blass refused to admit into his Roman text of Acts), f...
Verse Acts 5:12. _BY THE HANDS OF THE APOSTLES_] This verse should be read with the 15th, to which it properly belongs. Acts 5:15 _SOLOMON'S PORCH._] John 10:23,...
AND BY THE HANDS ... - By the apostles. This verse should be read in connection with the 15th, to which it belongs. SIGNS AND WONDERS - Miracles. See the notes on Acts 2:43. WITH ONE ACCORD - With on...
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)...
SIGNS. App-176. WONDERS. App-176. WROUGHT. being wrought. Compare Mark 16:17; Mark 16:18. AMONG. App-104. PEOPLE. Greek. _laoa._ See note on Acts 2:47. WITH ONE ACCORD. See note
Miraculous powers of the Apostles. Continued growth of the Church 12. _And by the hands of the apostles_, &c. _By the hands_may here only be the Hebrew mode of expressing _by_. Cp. (Joshua 14:2) "By l...
ΤΈΡΑΤΑ ΠΟΛΛᾺ ἘΝ ΤΩ͂Ι ΛΑΩ͂Ι with אABDE. _Vulg_. has ‘prodigia multa in plebe.’ 12. ΔΙᾺ ΔῈ ΤΩ͂Ν ΧΕΙΡΩ͂Ν, _and by the hands_. This may be only a Hebrew mode of expressing _by_, and need not necessarily b...
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...
ΈΓΊΝΕΤΟ _impf. ind. med. (dep.), см._ Acts 5:5. _Impf._ указывает на повторяющиеся случаи. ΟΜΟΘΥΜΑΔΌΝ единодушно. В эллинистическом греческом "вместе" (LC). ΈΝ ΤΉ ΣΤΟΦ ΣΟΛΟΜΏΝΤΟΣ в притворе Соломоно...
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...
12, 13. Increased activity of the apostles followed, and their office was still further magnified. (12) "_And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And t...
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. AND BY THE HANDS OF THE APOSTLES WERE MANY SIGNS AND W...
30 The timid opposition of the Sanhedrin is in contrast to the boldness of those who proclaimed the evangel. God manifested Himself by miraculous interventions, and the powers of the kingdom abounded....
IN SOLOMON'S PORCH] see Acts 3:11. Solomon's portico was practically abandoned to the Christians, who made it their place of daily assembly, the Apostles teaching and working miracles there....
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...
MANY SIGNS AND WONDERS.... — See Note on Acts 2:22. THEY WERE ALL WITH ONE ACCORD IN SOLOMON’S PORCH. — See Notes on Acts 3:2; John 10:23. It was, we have seen, at all times a favourite place of resor...
δέ : merely transitional; ἐγίνετο marking the continuance of the miracles; διὰ τῶν χειρῶν characteristic of St. Luke in Acts, _cf._ Acts 2:23; Acts 7:25; Acts 11:30; Acts 14:3
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...
_Solomon's porch. This was outside the temple, open to all, Jews and Gentiles, pure and impure. They assembled here, because it was a large place, where they could speak to many assembled. Had it been...
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...
_A PROPHECY FULFILLED_ ‘By the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people (… and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)’ Acts 5...
12.He returneth to miracles of another sort, which are more proper to the gospel; to wit, whereby Christ doth not only declare his power, but also his goodness; to the end he may allure men unto himse...
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...
AND BY THE HANDS OF THE APOSTLES WERE MANY SIGNS AND WONDERS WROUGHT,.... That is, by their means, or by them as instruments, or through the imposition of their hands on persons, many miraculous and w...
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. Ver. 12. _Were many signs and wonders_] Which were as so...
_And by the hands of the apostles were many signs, &c., wrought_ Many miracles of mercy for one of judgment. Now the gospel power returned to its proper channel, which is that of grace and goodness. T...
THE PROSPERITY OF THE CHURCH. 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....
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...
AND THROUGH THE HANDS OF THE APOSTLES MANY SIGNS AND WONDERS WERE DONE AMONG THE PEOPLE. AND THEY WERE ALL WITH ONE ACCORD IN SOLOMON ' S PORCH. 1. Many signs and wonders were performed. 1. SIGNS -...
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. 'BY THE HANDS OF THE APOSTLES'-Again, let it be noted that...
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...
BY THE HANDS OF THE APOSTLES; by the apostles ministry: though they were holy and excellent men, they were but instruments; the power they acted by was God s; which also they had prayed for and acknow...
12, 13. Increased activity of the apostles followed, and their office was still further magnified. (12) "_ And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And...
Acts 5:12 And G1161 through G1223 hands G5495 apostles G652 many G4183 signs G4592 and G2532 wonders G5059 done...
‘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.' The Apostles continued to gather in Solomon's porch to t...
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 5:12. AND BY THE HANDS OF THE APOSTLES WERE MANY SIGNS AND WONDERS WROUGHT AMONG THE PEOPLE. Notwithstanding the great fear which came over the Church after the terrible event just recorded, the...
WERE WROUGHT (εγινετο). Imperfect middle, wrought from time to time.WITH ONE ACCORD (ομοθυμαδον). As already in Acts 1:14; Acts 2:46; Acts 4:24 and later Ac...
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...
MANY MIRACLES AND WONDERS. Note it is the apostles who are said to have this power. Not everyone was given the gift of miracles. MET TOGETHER IN A GROUP. See Acts 2:46; Hebrews 10:25. NOBODY OUTSIDE T...
_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...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 5:12 The Christians had prayed for God to grant them the power to perform SIGNS AND WONDERS (see Acts 4:30). This was mightily fulfilled through the apostles, especiall
_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,...
2 Corinthians 12:12; Acts 1:14; Acts 14:3; Acts 14:8; Acts 16:18;...
And they were all — All the believers....
Three things are here observable: 1. How that act of severity upon Ananias and Sapphira for their hypocrisy, is instantly succeeded with acts of clemency and mercy upon others: The former acts of sev...