Focused Passage

Acts 5:12-16

Holy Fear, Bold Witness, and Joyful Suffering

The Spirit purifies the church, the apostles continue powerful witness, the authorities intensify opposition, and the apostles rejoice that they are counted worthy to suffer for Jesus' name.

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12 The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.

13 Although the people regarded them highly, no one else dared to join them.

14 Yet more and more believers were brought to the Lord—large numbers of both men and women.

15 As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.

16 Crowds also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and all of them were healed.

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Verse 12

Original words

- δὲ G1161 Conjunction The τῶν G3588 Article - Genitive Masculine Plural apostles ἀποστόλων G652 Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural vvv Διὰ G1223 Preposition vvv τῶν G3588 Article - Genitive Feminine Plural vvv χειρῶν G5495 Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural performed ἐγίνετο G1096 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular many πολλὰ G4183 Adjective - Nominative Neuter Plural signs σημεῖα G4592 Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural and καὶ G2532 Conjunction wonders τέρατα G5059 Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural among ἐν G1722 Preposition the τῷ G3588 Article - Dative Masculine Singular people λαῷ G2992 Noun - Dative Masculine Singular and καὶ G2532 Conjunction with one accord ὁμοθυμαδὸν G3661 Adverb [the believers gathered together] ἦσαν G1510 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural . . . ἅπαντες* G537 Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural in ἐν G1722 Preposition Solomon’s Σολομῶντος G4672 Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular - τῇ G3588 Article - Dative Feminine Singular Colonnade στοᾷ G4745 Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Verse 13

Original words

- δὲ G1161 Conjunction Although ἀλλ’ G235 Conjunction the G3588 Article - Nominative Masculine Singular people λαός G2992 Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular regarded them highly ἐμεγάλυνεν G3170 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular . . . αὐτοὺς G846 Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Plural no one οὐδεὶς G3762 Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular - τῶν G3588 Article - Genitive Masculine Plural else λοιπῶν G3062 Adjective - Genitive Masculine Plural dared ἐτόλμα G5111 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular to join κολλᾶσθαι G2853 Verb - Present Infinitive Middle or Passive them αὐτοῖς G846 Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Verse 14

Original words

Yet δὲ G1161 Conjunction more and more μᾶλλον G3123 Adverb believers πιστεύοντες G4100 Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural were brought προσετίθεντο G4369 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Plural to the τῷ G3588 Article - Dative Masculine Singular Lord Κυρίῳ G2962 Noun - Dative Masculine Singular large numbers πλήθη G4128 Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural of both τε G5037 Conjunction men ἀνδρῶν G435 Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural and καὶ G2532 Conjunction women γυναικῶν G1135 Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Verse 15

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As a result ὥστε G5620 Conjunction - καὶ G2532 Conjunction [people] brought ἐκφέρειν G1627 Verb - Present Infinitive Active the τοὺς G3588 Article - Accusative Masculine Plural sick ἀσθενεῖς G772 Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural into εἰς G1519 Preposition the τὰς G3588 Article - Accusative Feminine Plural streets πλατείας G4113 Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural and καὶ G2532 Conjunction laid [them] τιθέναι G5087 Verb - Present Infinitive Active on ἐπὶ G1909 Preposition cots κλιναρίων G2826 Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural and καὶ G2532 Conjunction mats κραβάττων G2895 Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural so that ἵνα G2443 Conjunction at least κἂν G2579 Conjunction Peter’s Πέτρου G4074 Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular - G3588 Article - Nominative Feminine Singular shadow σκιὰ G4639 Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular might fall on ἐπισκιάσῃ G1982 Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular some τινὶ G5100 Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Dative Masculine Singular of them αὐτῶν G846 Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural as he passed by ἐρχομένου G2064 Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Genitive Masculine Singular
Verse 16

Original words

- δὲ G1161 Conjunction - τὸ G3588 Article - Nominative Neuter Singular Crowds πλῆθος G4128 Noun - Nominative Neuter Singular also καὶ G2532 Conjunction gathered συνήρχετο G4905 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Singular from the τῶν G3588 Article - Genitive Feminine Plural towns πόλεων G4172 Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural around πέριξ G4038 Adverb Jerusalem Ἰερουσαλήμ G2419 Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular bringing φέροντες G5342 Verb - Present Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural [the] sick ἀσθενεῖς G772 Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural and καὶ G2532 Conjunction [those] tormented ὀχλουμένους G3791 Verb - Present Participle Middle or Passive - Accusative Masculine Plural by ὑπὸ G5259 Preposition unclean ἀκαθάρτων G169 Adjective - Genitive Neuter Plural spirits πνευμάτων G4151 Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural [and] οἵτινες G3748 Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural all [of them] ἅπαντες G537 Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural were healed ἐθεραπεύοντο G2323 Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Plural

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