Acts Chapter 4 verse 4 Holy Bible
But many of them that heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
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But a number of those who gave hearing to the word had faith; and they were now about five thousand.
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But many of those who had heard the word believed; and the number of the men had become [about] five thousand.
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Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
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But many of those who heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
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and many of those hearing the word did believe, and the number of the men became, as it were, five thousand.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - But for howbeit, A.V.; that for which, A.V.; came to be for was, A.V. The number of the men; strictly, of the males (ἀνδρῶν) (Acts 5:14), but probably used here more loosely of men and women. It is not clear whether the five thousand is exclusive of or includes the three thousand converts at the Feast of Pentecost; but the grammar rather favors, the former, as there is nothing in the word ἀνδρῶν, itself to signify "disciples," or "believers," and therefore it is more naturally referred to those of whom it had just been predicated that, having heard the Word, they believed it.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) The number of the men was about five thousand.--Better, became, or was made up to, about five thousand. It seems probable, though not certain, that St. Luke meant this as a statement of the aggregate number of disciples, not of those who were converted on that day. As in the narrative of the feeding of the five thousand (Matthew 14:21), women and children were not included. The number was probably ascertained, as on that occasion, by grouping those who came to baptism and to the breaking of bread by hundreds and by fifties (Mark 6:40). The connection in which the number is given makes it probable that it represents those who, under the influence of the impression made by the healing of the cripple and by St. Peter's speech, attended the meetings of the Church that evening. The coincidence of the numbers in the two narratives could scarcely fail to lead the disciples to connect the one with the other, and to feel, as they broke the bread and blessed it, that they were also giving men the true bread from heaven.
