Hechos 5:13

13 pero nadie más se atrevía a unirse a ellos, aunque toda la gente los tenía en alta estima.

Hechos 5:13 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 5:13

And of the rest durst no man join himself to them
By the rest are meant, either those that were without the church, and those either the profane and persecuting sort, who durst not come nigh the apostles to touch them, or say one word to them, for fear of being struck dead; and so the Ethiopic version renders it, "and then there was no more any man that durst restrain them", or go about to hinder them from preaching: or the better sort, such who attended on the word, and were either real believers or hypocrites, who durst not, one nor the other, join themselves to them, because of what happened to Ananias and Sapphira; which not only deterred hypocrites from coming into the church, but also kept off such who were really converted persons; but this sense seems to be contradicted in the following verse. Rather therefore by them are meant those within the church, and not only the private members of it, but the ministers of the word, of which number Ananias might have been; these, the rest of them, durst not come nigh the apostles, or familiarly converse with them, much less put themselves upon an equal foot with them, but with great reverence of them kept their distance from them:

but the people magnified them;
both the ministers of the word, as Barnabas and others, who showed such a respect to the apostles, they having extraordinary gifts, and extraordinary things also being done by them, and especially the twelve apostles; these the people in general spoke well of, praised and cried up as marvellous men, because of what was done by them.

Hechos 5:13 In-Context

11 Gran temor se apoderó de toda la iglesia y de todos los que oyeron lo que había sucedido.

12 Los apóstoles sanan a muchos
Los apóstoles hacían muchas señales milagrosas y maravillas entre la gente. Y todos los creyentes se reunían con frecuencia en el templo, en el área conocida como el Pórtico de Salomón;

13 pero nadie más se atrevía a unirse a ellos, aunque toda la gente los tenía en alta estima.

14 Sin embargo, cada vez más personas —multitudes de hombres y mujeres— creían y se acercaban al Señor.

15 Como resultado del trabajo de los apóstoles, la gente sacaba a los enfermos a las calles en camas y camillas para que la sombra de Pedro cayera sobre algunos de ellos cuando él pasaba.