So An Ever-Increasing Number Of Men And Women, Believed In The LORD

"Many miraculous signs and wonders done among the people, through the hands of the apostles.  The believers, of one accord, used to meet in Solomon's Porch.  None of the others dared to join them, but the people held them in high esteem.  So, an ever-increasing number of men and women, believed in the LORD.  The people carried the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and on mats, so, that, when Peter passed by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.  The people gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those who were troubled by unclean spirits; and all of them were healed." - Acts 5:12-16

(All the Jews believed in GOD who spoke through the prophets.  It was easy for them to believe in the prophets of the past after the religious authorities acknowledged them and placed their warnings in all the books of the Scriptures.  But it was quite a different thing to recognize JESUS as the prophet that GOD had sent them but whom they had rejected.  The text states that to believe in the LORD and join the community are two inseparable steps.  A person cannot belong to JESUS without belonging to the new people HE has brought to life through water and the Spirit.)

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