46And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,
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And daily in the temple, and in every house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ.
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
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.
And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.
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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