Acts 5:16
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What does Acts 5:16 mean?
There came also a multitude out of the cities round
about,
&c.] The fame of the apostles' miracles spread in the cities
round about Jerusalem; those that were at some distance as well
as near, and large numbers of people came from thence,
unto Jerusalem;
where the apostles were: the Syriac version adds, "unto them",
that is, to the apostles; and the Arabic version, "with them";
along with those of the city of Jerusalem, who brought out their
infirm persons into the streets to be cured:
bringing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean
spirits;
with devils, by whom they were not only possessed, but greatly
harassed and afflicted: sometimes tearing and convulsing them,
and sometimes throwing them on the ground, and bruising them; or
into fire and water, of which there are some instances in the
evangelists:
and they were healed everyone;
none went without a cure, which served greatly to confirm the
Gospel preached by the apostles, and to irritate and provoke
their enemies, as appears by what follows.
