Acts 2:41 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴¹Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 4:4
Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
Acts 2:47
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.
Acts 16:31-34
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. …
John 14:12
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
Acts 2:37
Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 37-41)

We have seen the wonderful effect of the pouring out of the Spirit, in its influence upon the preachers of the gospel. Peter, in all his life, never spoke at the rate that he had done now, with such fulness, perspicuity, and power. We are now to see another blessed fruit of the pouring out of the Spirit in its influence upon the hearers of the gospel. From the first delivery of that divine message…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 41)

41-47. they that gladly received his word were baptized--“It is difficult to say how three thousand could be baptized in one day, according to the old practice of a complete submersion; and the more as in Jerusalem there was no water at hand except Kidron and a few pools. The difficulty can only be removed by supposing that they already employed sprinkling, or baptized in houses in large vessels.…