Acts 5:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

By the hands of the apostles; by the apostles ministry: though they were holy and excellent men, they were but instruments; the power they acted by was God s; which also they had prayed for and acknowledged, Acts 4:30. Among the people; generally among the meaner sort, according to that question, Have any of the rulers believed on him? 1 Thessalonians 7:48. Not many mighty, not many noble, are called, 1 Corinthians 1:26. In Solomon's porch; a large and capacious place, where they might with greatest convenience hear and see what was done and said.

Acts 5:12

12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.