Handelingen 5:16

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.

Handelingen 5:16 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 5:16

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.

Handelingen 5:16 In-Context

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.

18 En sloegen hun handen aan de apostelen, en zetten hen in de gemene gevangenis.