Handelingen 5:15

15 Alzo dat zij de kranken uitdroegen op de straten, en legden op bedden en beddekens, opdat, als Petrus kwam, ook maar de schaduw iemand van hen beschaduwen mocht.

Handelingen 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.

Handelingen 5:15 In-Context

13 En van de anderen durfde niemand zich bij hen voegen; maar het volk hield hen in grote achting.

14 En er werden meer en meer toegedaan, die den Heere geloofden, menigten beide van mannen en van vrouwen;

15 Alzo dat zij de kranken uitdroegen op de straten, en legden op bedden en beddekens, opdat, als Petrus kwam, ook maar de schaduw iemand van hen beschaduwen mocht.

16 En ook de menigte uit de omliggende steden kwamen gezamenlijk te Jeruzalem, brengende kranken, en die van onreine geesten gekweld waren; welke allen genezen werden.

17 En de hogepriester stond op, en allen, die met hem waren (welke was de sekte der Sadduceen), en werden vervuld met nijdigheid.