Acts 5:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) ”

Acts 5:14 - Albert 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 inci...
Acts 5:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 . In Acts 2:43 we read tha...
Acts 5:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

believers . believing (ones). App-150. multitudes. Greek. ptethos. women. Compare Acts 1:14 .
Acts 5:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) And believers were the more added to the Lord - Believers: 1. Those who credited the Divine mission of Christ. 2. T...
Acts 5:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) And believers (visible converts), were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women. The par...
Acts 5:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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 t...
Acts 5:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Added to the Lord. — Here, probably, the word is used in its definite New Testament sense for the Lord Jesus. Both of men and women. — The mention of the latter forms an introduction to the diss...
Acts 5:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 b...
Acts 5:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 terribl...
Acts 5:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 on...
Acts 5:14 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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...
Acts 5:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 t...
Acts 5:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women.) Ver. 14. And believers were the more added ] So little lost the Church by that dreadful doom that befell Ananias...
Acts 5:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And of the rest Who were not really converted to Christianity; durst Or presumed; no man to join himself to them As, had it not been for the late signal judgment, some hypocrites might have a...
Acts 5:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 certain...
Acts 5:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Progress of the Gospel. 12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they wer...
Acts 5:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

This explains the former verse, and helps us against mistaking it, for this wonderful judgment was so far from being a hinderance to the men of the gospel, that it is turned to the furtherance of it;...
Acts 5:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 expans...
Acts 5:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 5:12-13 . Among the people .— I.e. , the population of Jerusalem. All .—Either all the apostles, the rest being believers and unbelievers (Alford, Olshausen, Hackett), o...
Acts 5:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Acts 5:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

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...
Acts 5:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 co...
Acts 5:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Prosperity of the Church. Acts 5:12-16
Acts 5:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 11:11 ; 1 Corinthians 11:12 ; 2 Samuel 6:19 ; Acts 2:41 ; Acts 2:47 ; Acts 22:4 ; Acts 4:4 ; Acts 6:7 ; Acts 8:12 ; Acts 8:3 ; Acts 9:2 ; Acts 9:31 ; Acts 9:35 ; Acts 9:42...
Acts 5:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

But so much the more were true believers added, because unbelievers kept at a distance.

Acts 5:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 5:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 5:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 5:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Acts 5:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Acts 5:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 5:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Acts 5:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Acts 5:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Acts 5:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Acts 5:14 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Acts 5:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Acts 5:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 5:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 5:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 5:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acts 5:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Acts 5:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 5:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 5:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 5:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 5:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Acts 5:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 5:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 5:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes