Acts 2:47 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴⁷Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

Acts 2:47 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 16:5
And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.
Acts 5:13-14
And of the rest durst no man join himself to them: but the people magnified them. …
Acts 2:41
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
Acts 2:39
For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

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Ablution Believer Blessing Brotherly Kindness Children of God Chosen, or Elected Christian Church

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, wil…

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

(vv. 47)

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.…