Kisah Para Rasul 4:4

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Tetapi di antara orang yang mendengar ajaran itu banyak yang menjadi percaya, sehingga jumlah mereka menjadi kira-kira lima ribu orang laki-laki.

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Tetapi di antara orang yang mendengar ajaran itu banyak yang menjadi percaya, sehingga jumlah mereka menjadi kira-kira lima ribu orang laki-laki.

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Tetapi banyak orang yang mendengar perkataan itu sudah percaya; maka banyaknya orang laki-laki itu ada sekira-kira lima ribu.

Contextual Overview

¹ And as they spake vnto ye people, the priestes & the ruler of the temple, and the saducees, came vpon them, ² Takyng it greuously that they taught the people, and preached in Iesus the resurrection from the dead. ³ And they layde handes on them, and put them in holde, vntyll the next day: for it was nowe euentyde. ⁴ Howbeit, many of them which hearde the worde, beleued: and the number of the men was about fyue thousande.

Bible Verse Review
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many: Acts 28:24, 2 Corinthians 2:14-17, Philippians 1:12-18, 2 Timothy 2:9, 2 Timothy 2:10

the number: Acts 2:41, Genesis 49:10, Isaiah 45:24, Isaiah 53:12, John 12:24

Reciprocal: Psalms 40:3 - many Psalms 45:5 - people Psalms 72:16 - There Psalms 110:3 - from the womb Isaiah 32:20 - Blessed Isaiah 44:4 - spring Isaiah 66:8 - shall a nation Ezekiel 47:9 - a very great Matthew 14:21 - about Mark 4:31 - is less than Luke 5:6 - they enclosed Luke 13:19 - and it John 4:38 - sent John 8:28 - then John 14:12 - greater John 17:20 - for them John 21:6 - the multitude Acts 5:14 - believers Acts 6:1 - when Acts 9:35 - all Acts 11:21 - and a Acts 16:5 - increased Acts 21:20 - how Galatians 2:8 - he

Cross-References

Genesis 4:16
And Cain went out from the presence of the Lorde, & dwelt in the lande of Nod, eastwarde from Eden.

Genesis 4:17
Cain also knewe his wyfe, whiche conceaued and bare Henoch, and buyldyng a citie, he called the name of the same citie after the name of his sonne Henoch.

Genesis 4:19
And Lamech toke vnto hym two wyues, the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other was Sella.

Genesis 4:20
And Ada bare Iabel, which was the father of such as dwel in the tentes, and of such as haue cattell.

Genesis 15:17
And so it was, that when the sonne went downe, and it was twylyght, beholde a smokyng furnesse and a fire brande goyng betweene the said peeces.

Exodus 13:12
And then thou shalt appoynt vnto the Lorde all that openeth the matrice, and euery firstlyng that commeth of a beast which thou hast, yf it be a male, it shalbe the Lordes.

Leviticus 9:24
And there came a fire out from before the Lorde, and consumed vpon the aulter the burnt offering & the fat: Whiche when all the people sawe, they gaue thankes, and fell on their faces.

Numbers 16:35
And there came out a fire from the Lorde, and consumed the two hundred and fiftie men that offered incense.

Numbers 18:12
Al the fat of the oyle, & al the fat of the wine, & of the wheate, which they shall offer vnto the Lorde for first fruites, the same haue I geuen vnto thee.

Numbers 18:17
But the first borne of a cowe, sheepe, & goate, shalt thou not redeeme, for they are holy: therfore thou shalt sprinckle their blood vpon the aulter, and shalt burne their fat as a sacrifice made by fire, for a sweete sauour vnto the Lord.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Howbeit - But; notwithstanding.

Many of them ... - This was one of the instances, which has since been so often repeated, in which persecution is seen to have a tendency to extend and establish the faith which it was designed to destroy. It finally came to be a proverb that “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church”; and there is no lesson which men have been so slow to learn as that to oppose and persecute men is the very way to confirm them in their opinions and to spread their doctrines. It was supposed here that the disciples were few; that they were without power, wealth, and influence; and that it was easy to crush them at once. But God made their persecution the means of extending, in a signal manner, the truths of the gospel and the triumphs of his word. And so in all ages it has been, and so it ever will be.

And the number ... - It seems probable that in this number of 5,000 there were included the 120 persons who are mentioned in Acts 1:15, and the 3,000 people who were converted on the day of Pentecost, Acts 2:41. It does not appear probable that 5,000 would have been assembled and converted in Solomon’s porch Acts 3:11 on occasion of the cure of the lame man. Luke doubtless means to say that, up to this time, the number of persons who had joined themselves to the apostles was about 5,000. On this supposition, the work of religion must have made a very rapid advance. How long this was after the day of Pentecost is not mentioned, but it is clear that it was at no very distant period; and the accession of near two thousand to the number of believers was a very striking proof of the power and presence of the Holy Spirit.

Of the men - Of the “persons.” The word “men” is often used without reference to sex, Luke 11:31; Romans 4:8; Romans 11:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 4:4. The number - was about five thousand. — That is, as I understand the passage, the one hundred and twenty which were converted before pentecost, the three thousand converted at pentecost, and one thousand eight hundred and eighty converted since the conversion of the three thousand; making in the whole five thousand, or ωσει about that number: there might have been more or less; the historian does not fix the number absolutely. A goodly flock in one city, as the commencement of the Christian Church! Some think all the five thousand were converted on this day; but this is by no means likely.