Acts 5:14

Amplified Bible

More and more believers in the Lord, crowds of men and women, were constantly being added to their number,

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
More and more people believed in the Lord, and many men and women were added to the group of believers.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
The noumbre of them that beleved in the Lorde bothe of men and wemen grewe moare and moare:

Hebrew Names Version
More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

International Standard Version
Nevertheless, still more believers, a vast number of both men and women, were being added to the Lord.

New American Standard Bible
And increasingly believers in the Lord, large numbers of men and women, were being added to their number,

New Century Version
More and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to the group of believers.

Update Bible Version
and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women;

Webster's Bible Translation
And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

English Standard Version
And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

World English Bible
More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And multitudes both of men and women believing were the more added to the Lord:)

Weymouth's New Testament
and more and more believers in the Lord joined them, including great numbers both of men and women--

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the multitude of men and of wymmen bileuynge in the Lord was more encreessid,

English Revised Version
and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women;

Berean Standard Bible
Yet more and more believers were brought to the Lord-large numbers of both men and women.

Contemporary English Version
Many men and women started having faith in the Lord.

American Standard Version
and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women:

Bible in Basic English
And a great number of men and women had faith, and were joined to the Lord;

Complete Jewish Bible
and throngs of believers were added to the Lord, both men and women.

Darby Translation
and believers were more than ever added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women;)

Etheridge Translation
And the more were they who believed added to the Lord, an assemblage of men and of women;

Murdock Translation
And the more were those added who feared the Lord, a multitude both of men and of women.

King James Version (1611)
And beleeuers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

New Living Translation
Yet more and more people believed and were brought to the Lord—crowds of both men and women.

New Life Bible
Many more men and women put their trust in Christ and were added to the group.

New Revised Standard
Yet more than ever believers were added to the Lord, great numbers of both men and women,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Also the number of them that beleeued in the Lord, both of men and women, grewe more and more)

George Lamsa Translation
And the number of those who believed in the LORD was greatly increased by multitudes, both of men and women.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the more, were being added, when they believed in the Lord, throngs both of men and women; -

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the multitude of men and women who believed in the Lord was more increased:

Revised Standard Version
And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The number of them that beleued in the Lorde, both of men and women, grewe more and more.)

Good News Translation
But more and more people were added to the group—a crowd of men and women who believed in the Lord.

Christian Standard Bible®
Believers were added to the Lord in increasing numbers—multitudes of both men and women.

King James Version
And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.)

Lexham English Bible
And even more believers in the Lord were being added, large numbers of both men and women,

Literal Translation
And more believing ones were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and of women,

Young's Literal Translation
(and the more were believers added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women,)

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The multitude of the men and women that beleued in the LORDE, grewe more and more)

Mace New Testament (1729)
did not venture to approach near them. the number of those who believed in the Lord, both men and women, increas'd more and more.

New English Translation
More and more believers in the Lord were added to their number, crowds of both men and women.

New King James Version
And believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

Simplified Cowboy Version
Yet more and more cowboys started to ride for the Lord. Some of the greatest of these new cowboys were women.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And all the more believers in the Lord, multitudes of men and women, were constantly added to their number,

Legacy Standard Bible
And more than ever believers in the Lord were added to their number, multitudes of men and women,

Contextual Overview

¹²At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders (attesting miracles) were continually taking place among the people. And by common consent they all met together [at the temple] in [the covered porch called] Solomon's portico. ¹³But none of the rest [of the people, the non-believers] dared to associate with them; however, the people were holding them in high esteem and were speaking highly of them. ¹⁴More and more believers in the Lord, crowds of men and women, were constantly being added to their number,¹⁵to such an extent that they even carried their sick out into the streets and put them on cots and sleeping pads, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on one of them [with healing power]. ¹⁶And the people from the towns in the vicinity of Jerusalem were coming together, bringing the sick and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all being healed.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

believers: Acts 2:41, Acts 2:47, Acts 4:4, Acts 6:7, Acts 9:31, Acts 9:35, Acts 9:42, Isaiah 44:3-5, Isaiah 45:24, Isaiah 55:11-13

multitudes: Acts 8:3, Acts 8:12, Acts 9:2, Acts 22:4, Exodus 35:22, Deuteronomy 29:11, Deuteronomy 29:12, Deuteronomy 31:11, Deuteronomy 31:12, 2 Samuel 6:19, Ezra 10:1, Nehemiah 8:2, 1 Corinthians 11:11, 1 Corinthians 11:12, Galatians 3:28

Reciprocal: Numbers 23:23 - What hath Psalms 45:5 - people Isaiah 32:20 - Blessed Isaiah 44:4 - spring Isaiah 60:22 - little Ezekiel 47:9 - a very great Mark 4:31 - is less than John 4:38 - sent Acts 6:1 - when Acts 11:21 - and a Acts 11:24 - and much Acts 16:5 - increased

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And believers were the more added to the Lord,.... That is, to the church, as in Acts 2:47 over which Christ was Lord and head; for they were added to the Lord before, by believing in him, when they gave up themselves to him, to be saved by him; and now to the apostles, and the church by the will of God; and this case of Ananias and Sapphira was so far from hindering persons from coming into the church, that there were greater additions made to it than before, even of such as were true believers in Christ. The Ethiopic version reads, "and many were added who believed in our Lord"; the Arabic version, "they that believed in the Lord increased"; the Syriac version, "and they more increased who believed in the Lord"; and so the Vulgate Latin version, "but the multitude of them that believe in the Lord were the more increased"; all of them reading the phrase, "the Lord", not in construction with the word "added", but with "believers: multitudes both of men and women"; the weaker sex were not intimidated any more than the men, such power went along with the word, and such grace was bestowed upon them. This church must now be prodigiously numerous, for before these additions, eight thousand had been added to the hundred and twenty; such success the Gospel had, and such progress it made in the hands of such mean and contemptible persons, notwithstanding the opposition of the chief men of the nation to it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And believers - This is the name by which Christians were designated, because one of the main things that distinguished them was that they “believed” that Jesus was the Christ. It is also an incidental proof that none should join themselves to the church who are not “believers”; that is, who do not profess to be Christians in heart and in life.

Were the more added - The effect of all these things was to increase the number of converts. Their persecutions, their preaching, and the judgment of God, “all” tended to impress the minds of the people, and to lead them to the Lord Jesus Christ. Compare Acts 4:4. Though the judgment of God had the effect of deterring hypocrites from entering the church - though it produced awe and caution, yet still the number of true converts was increased. An effort to keep the church pure by wholesome discipline, and by cutting off unworthy members, however rich or honored, so far from weakening its true strength, has a tendency greatly to increase its numbers as well as its purity. People will not seek to enter a corrupt church, or regard it as worth any effort to be connected with a society that does not endeavor to be pure.

Multitudes - Compare Acts 4:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 5:14. And believers were the more added to the Lord — Believers:

1. Those who credited the Divine mission of Christ.

2. That he was the Messiah.

3. That he died for their sins.

4. That he rose again.

5. That he ascended into heaven.

6. That he sent down the gift of the Holy Spirit.

7. That he ever appeared in the presence of God for them.

8. That it was he who gives repentance and remission of sins. And,

9. He by whom the world is to be judged.

These were simple articles, of the truth of which they had the fullest evidence.