Cselekedetek 4:4

Biblia Karoli Gaspar

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many: Acts 28:24, 2 Corinthians 2:14-17, Philippians 1:12-18, 2 Timothy 2:9, 2 Timothy 2:10

the number: Acts 2:41, Genesis 49:10, Isaiah 45:24, Isaiah 53:12, John 12:24

Reciprocal: Psalms 40:3 - many Psalms 45:5 - people Psalms 72:16 - There Psalms 110:3 - from the womb Isaiah 32:20 - Blessed Isaiah 44:4 - spring Isaiah 66:8 - shall a nation Ezekiel 47:9 - a very great Matthew 14:21 - about Mark 4:31 - is less than Luke 5:6 - they enclosed Luke 13:19 - and it John 4:38 - sent John 8:28 - then John 14:12 - greater John 17:20 - for them John 21:6 - the multitude Acts 5:14 - believers Acts 6:1 - when Acts 9:35 - all Acts 11:21 - and a Acts 16:5 - increased Acts 21:20 - how Galatians 2:8 - he

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Howbeit, many of them which heard the word,.... The doctrine of the Gospel, preached by Peter and John:

believed; the report of it, and in Christ, as risen from the dead, which was the sum and substance of it: and this they did, notwithstanding the opposition made by the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducces, and the violence they used to the apostles; for though they kept their persons in hold, they could not stop the free course of the word, which ran and was glorified:

and the number of the men was about five thousand; or "was five thousand", as the Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin, and Ethiopic versions read; that is the number, not of the hearers, but "of them that believed", was so many; and so read the Arabic and Ethiopic versions: there were so many persons converted at this time; for this number does not include the three thousand that were converted under the first sermon, but regards those who now became true believers, and were added to the church; so that there were now eight thousand persons added to it; a great increase indeed! now had Christ the dew of his youth, and now were these fishermen fishers of men indeed: that our Lord's feeding five thousand men with five barley loaves and two fishes, should have any regard to the conversion of these five thousand men, is but a conceit.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Howbeit - But; notwithstanding.

Many of them ... - This was one of the instances, which has since been so often repeated, in which persecution is seen to have a tendency to extend and establish the faith which it was designed to destroy. It finally came to be a proverb that “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church”; and there is no lesson which men have been so slow to learn as that to oppose and persecute men is the very way to confirm them in their opinions and to spread their doctrines. It was supposed here that the disciples were few; that they were without power, wealth, and influence; and that it was easy to crush them at once. But God made their persecution the means of extending, in a signal manner, the truths of the gospel and the triumphs of his word. And so in all ages it has been, and so it ever will be.

And the number ... - It seems probable that in this number of 5,000 there were included the 120 persons who are mentioned in Acts 1:15, and the 3,000 people who were converted on the day of Pentecost, Acts 2:41. It does not appear probable that 5,000 would have been assembled and converted in Solomon’s porch Acts 3:11 on occasion of the cure of the lame man. Luke doubtless means to say that, up to this time, the number of persons who had joined themselves to the apostles was about 5,000. On this supposition, the work of religion must have made a very rapid advance. How long this was after the day of Pentecost is not mentioned, but it is clear that it was at no very distant period; and the accession of near two thousand to the number of believers was a very striking proof of the power and presence of the Holy Spirit.

Of the men - Of the “persons.” The word “men” is often used without reference to sex, Luke 11:31; Romans 4:8; Romans 11:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 4:4. The number - was about five thousand. — That is, as I understand the passage, the one hundred and twenty which were converted before pentecost, the three thousand converted at pentecost, and one thousand eight hundred and eighty converted since the conversion of the three thousand; making in the whole five thousand, or ωσει about that number: there might have been more or less; the historian does not fix the number absolutely. A goodly flock in one city, as the commencement of the Christian Church! Some think all the five thousand were converted on this day; but this is by no means likely.