42And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
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Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.
That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 42-47)We often speak of the primitive church, and appeal to it, and to the history of it; in these verses we have the history of the truly primitive church , of the first days of it, its state of infancy indeed, but, like that, the state of its greatest innocence . I. They kept close to holy ordinances, and abounded in all instances of piety and devotion, for Christianity, admitted in the power of it, w…
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