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Cselekedetek 5:16
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
bringing: Matthew 4:24, Matthew 8:16, Matthew 15:30, Matthew 15:31, Mark 2:3, Mark 2:4, Mark 6:54-56, John 14:12
healed: Acts 4:30, Mark 16:17, Mark 16:18, Luke 5:17, Luke 9:11, 1 Corinthians 12:9, James 5:16
Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 3:3 - a time to heal Matthew 4:23 - healing Matthew 9:2 - they brought Luke 6:18 - vexed Luke 6:19 - sought Acts 2:43 - many Acts 8:7 - unclean
Gill's Notes on the Bible
There came also a multitude out of the cities round about,.... The fame of the apostles' miracles spread in the cities round about Jerusalem; those that were at some distance as well as near, and large numbers of people came from thence,
unto Jerusalem; where the apostles were: the Syriac version adds, "unto them", that is, to the apostles; and the Arabic version, "with them"; along with those of the city of Jerusalem, who brought out their infirm persons into the streets to be cured:
bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits; with devils, by whom they were not only possessed, but greatly harassed and afflicted: sometimes tearing and convulsing them, and sometimes throwing them on the ground, and bruising them; or into fire and water, of which there are some instances in the evangelists:
and they were healed everyone; none went without a cure, which served greatly to confirm the Gospel preached by the apostles, and to irritate and provoke their enemies, as appears by what follows.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
There came also ... - Attracted by the fame of Peter’s miracles, as the people formerly had been by the miracles of the Lord Jesus.
Vexed - Troubled, afflicted, or tormented.
Unclean spirits - Possessed with devils; called “unclean” because they prompted to sin and impurity of life. See the notes on Matthew 4:23-24.
And they were healed - Of these persons it is expressly affirmed that they were healed. Of those who were so laid as that the shadow of Peter might pass over them, there is no such direct affirmation.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 5:16. Sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits — Here it is evident that sick people are distinguished from those who were vexed with unclean spirits; and therefore they were not one and the same thing. The same distinction is made Matthew 4:24; Matthew 10:1; Mark 1:32, Mark 1:34; Mark 16:17-18; and Luke 4:40-41; Luke 7:21.