Apostelgeschichte 4:4

4 Viele aber von denen, welche das Wort gehört hatten, wurden gläubig; und es wurde die Zahl der Männer bei fünftausend.

Apostelgeschichte 4:4 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 4:4

Howbeit, many of them which heard the word
The doctrine of the Gospel, preached by Peter and John:

believed;
the report of it, and in Christ, as risen from the dead, which was the sum and substance of it: and this they did, notwithstanding the opposition made by the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducces, and the violence they used to the apostles; for though they kept their persons in hold, they could not stop the free course of the word, which ran and was glorified:

and the number of the men was about five thousand;
or "was five thousand", as the Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin, and Ethiopic versions read; that is the number, not of the hearers, but "of them that believed", was so many; and so read the Arabic and Ethiopic versions: there were so many persons converted at this time; for this number does not include the three thousand that were converted under the first sermon, but regards those who now became true believers, and were added to the church; so that there were now eight thousand persons added to it; a great increase indeed! now had Christ the dew of his youth, and now were these fishermen fishers of men indeed: that our Lord's feeding five thousand men with five barley loaves and two fishes, should have any regard to the conversion of these five thousand men, is but a conceit.

Apostelgeschichte 4:4 In-Context

2 welche es verdroß, daß sie das Volk lehrten und in Jesu die Auferstehung aus den Toten verkündigten.

3 Und sie legten die Hände an sie und setzten sie in Gewahrsam bis an den Morgen, denn es war schon Abend.

4 Viele aber von denen, welche das Wort gehört hatten, wurden gläubig; und es wurde die Zahl der Männer bei fünftausend.

5 Es geschah aber des folgenden Tages, daß ihre Obersten und Ältesten und Schriftgelehrten sich in Jerusalem versammelten,

6 und Annas, der Hohepriester, und Kajaphas und Johannes und Alexander, und so viele vom hohenpriesterlichen Geschlecht waren.