Acts 5:12

The Apostles Perform Miraculous Signs and Wonders

5:12 Now many miraculous signs ¹  and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By ²  common consent ³  they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico. ⁴ 

Acts 5:15

5:15 Thus ⁵  they even carried the sick out into the streets, and put them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow would fall on some of them.

Matthew 4:24

4:24 So a report about him spread throughout Syria. People ⁶  brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those who had seizures, ⁷  paralytics, and those possessed by demons, ⁸  and he healed them.

Mark 6:54-56

6:54 As they got out of the boat, people immediately recognized Jesus. ⁹  6:55 They ran through that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever he was rumored to be. ¹⁰  6:56 And wherever he would go – into villages, towns, or countryside – they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if ¹¹  they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.

¹ tn The miraculous nature of these signs is implied in the context.

² tn Grk “And by.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

³ tn Or “With one mind.”

⁴ tn Or “colonnade”; Grk “stoa.”

⁵ tn This is a continuation of the preceding sentence in Greek, but because this would produce an awkward sentence in English, a new sentence was begun here in the translation.

⁶ tn Grk “And they”; “they” is probably an indefinite plural, referring to people in general rather than to the Syrians (cf. v. 25).

⁷ tn Grk “those who were moonstruck,” possibly meaning “lunatic” (so NAB), although now the term is generally regarded as referring to some sort of seizure disorder such as epilepsy (L&N 23.169; BDAG 919 s.v. σεληνιάζομαι).

⁸ tn The translation has adopted a different phrase order here than that in the Greek text. The Greek text reads, “People brought to him all who suffered with various illnesses and afflictions, those possessed by demons, epileptics, and paralytics.” Even though it is obvious that four separate groups of people are in view here, following the Greek word order could lead to the misconception that certain people were possessed by epileptics and paralytics. The word order adopted in the translation avoids this problem.

⁹ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰ tn Grk “wherever they heard he was.”

¹¹ tn Grk “asked that they might touch.”