Acts 5:13

Of the rest; of those outside of the Christian body.

Durst no man join himself; that is, according to some, in a hypocritical way, like Ananias and Sapphira. But perhaps the meaning is, that the multitude without the church were so overwrought by the death of these two persons, that, for the present, no one dared openly to connect himself with the Christian body under the charge of the apostles. This may have been no permanent hinderance to the increase of the church, but only a salutary check promotive of its purity, while the work of conversion went on among the people.

Magnified them; regarded and spoke of them with great respect.