Hechos 5:15

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.

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 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.

16 Multitudes llegaban desde las aldeas que rodeaban a Jerusalén y llevaban a sus enfermos y a los que estaban poseídos por espíritus malignos,
y todos eran sanados.

17 Los apóstoles enfrentan oposición
El sumo sacerdote y sus funcionarios, que eran saduceos, se llenaron de envidia.