Acts 5:13-15

5:13 None of the rest dared to join them, ¹  but the people held them in high honor. ²  5:14 More and more believers in the Lord were added to their number, ³  crowds of both men and women. 5:15 Thus ⁴  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.

¹ tn Or “to associate with them.” The group was beginning to have a controversial separate identity. People were cautious about joining them. The next verse suggests that the phrase “none of the rest” in this verse is rhetorical hyperbole.

² tn Or “the people thought very highly of them.”

³ tn Or “More and more believers were added to the Lord.”

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.