Acts 5:13 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And of the rest, &c.— That is, the people held them in distant admiration, and presumed not, on any false pretence, to join them, if not truly converted; which yet it appears by the next verse many were, who readily came into a full and solemn profession of the gospel; as indeed the late miracle was a glorious, though a dreadful demonstration of its truth. The word κολλασθαι, rendered join, signifies to associate or unite with; to adhere or cleave to.