Hechos 5:15

15 Tanto que echaban los enfermos por las calles, y los ponían en camas y en lechos, para que viniendo Pedro, a lo menos su sombra tocara a alguno de ellos

Hechos 5:15 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 5:15

Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, &c.] These words are to be read in connection with the former part of the twelfth verse. Such miraculous cures being wrought by the apostles, the people who had sick persons in their houses, hearing of it brought them out; either "into the streets", as we render it, and as the Alexandrian copy reads; or "in every street" in Jerusalem, waiting for the apostles as they came, to receive a cure from them:

and laid them on beds and couches;
for the better conveniency of carrying them to the apostles, or for their lying upon them until they came by that way:

that at the least, the shadow of Peter passing by, might overshadow
some of them.
The Vulgate Latin version adds, "and be delivered from their infirmities"; but this is not supported by any copy, nor is it in any other version. Peter is only mentioned because he was most known, he being the chief speaker and actor. Who these were that fancied there was such a virtue in Peter's shadow, and whether any were cured by it, is not certain. However, it is a vain thing in the Papists to conclude from hence the primacy of Peter, the worshipping of images, and that the Pope is Peter's shadow, and has his power.

Hechos 5:15 In-Context

13 Y de los otros, ninguno osaba juntarse con ellos; con todo eso el pueblo los alababa grandemente

14 Y los que creían en el Señor se aumentaban más, gran número así de hombres como de mujeres.

15 Tanto que echaban los enfermos por las calles, y los ponían en camas y en lechos, para que viniendo Pedro, a lo menos su sombra tocara a alguno de ellos

16 Y aun de las ciudades vecinas concurría multitud a Jerusalén, trayendo enfermos y atormentados de espíritus inmundos; los cuales todos eran curados

17 Entonces levantándose el príncipe de los sacerdotes, y todos los que estaban con él, (que es la secta de los saduceos,) se llenaron de celo