Acts 9:42

Syriac Peshitta (NT Only)

ܘܶܐܬ݂ܝܰܕ݂ܥܰܬ݂ ܗܳܕ݂ܶܐ ܒ݁ܟ݂ܽܠܳܗ ܡܕ݂ܺܝܢ݈ܬ݁ܳܐ ܘܣܰܓ݁ܺܝܶܐܐ ܗܰܝܡܶܢܘ ܒ݁ܡܳܪܰܢ ܀

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and many: Acts 9:35, Acts 11:21, Acts 19:17, Acts 19:18, John 11:4, John 11:45, John 12:11, John 12:44

Reciprocal: Acts 5:14 - believers Acts 10:23 - and certain Acts 13:49 - was Acts 28:14 - we found

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it was known throughout all Joppa,.... The report of such a miracle, and wrought upon a person of note, was soon spread all over the place, which was very large, for it was a city, as it is called, Acts 11:5, and it had, as Josephus q says, villages and little towns or cities round about it; all which might go by the name of Joppa, and throughout which the fame of this miracle might pass:

and many believed in the Lord; in the Lord Jesus Christ, whom Peter preached, and the saints in Joppa professed, and in whose name, and by whose power, this miracle was done.

q De Bello Jud. l. 3. c. 8. sect. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And many believed ... - A similar effect followed when Jesus raised up Lazarus. See John 12:11.

This was the first miracle of this kind that was performed by the apostles. The effect was that many believed. It was not merely a work of benevolence, in restoring to life one who contributed largely to the comfort of the poor, but it was a means of extending and establishing, as it was designed doubtless to do, the kingdom of the Saviour.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 9:42. Many believed in the Lord. — That is, in Christ Jesus, in whose name and through whose power they understood this miracle to be wrought. This miracle, as well as that at Lydda, was not only the means of strengthening the faith of the disciples, and gaining credit to the cause of Christianity, but also of bringing many sincere converts to the Lord, so that the Church was thereby both builded up and multiplied.