SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:4
Pero muchos de los que habían oído la palabra, creyeron; y fue el nmero de los varones como cinco mil.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 4:4
Verse 4. The number-was about five thousand.] That is, as I understand the passage, the one hundred and twenty which were converted before pentecost, the three thousand converted at pentecost, and one thousand eight hundred and eighty converted since the conversion of the three thousand; making in the whole five thousand, or wsei about that number: there might have been more or less; the historian does not fix the number absolutely. A goodly flock in one city, as the commencement of the Christian Church! Some think all the five thousand were converted on this day; but this is by no means likely.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 4. Howbeit, many of them which heard the word , etc.] The doctrine of the Gospel, preached by Peter and John: believed ; the report of it, and in Christ, as risen from the dead, which was the sum and substance of it: and this they did, notwithstanding the opposition made by the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducces, and the violence they used to the apostles; for though they kept their persons in hold, they could not stop the free course of the word, which ran and was glorified: and the number of the men was about five thousand ; or was five thousand, as the Alexandrian copy, the Vulgate Latin, and Ethiopic versions read; that is the number, not of the hearers, but of them that believed, was so many; and so read the Arabic and Ethiopic versions: there were so many persons converted at this time; for this number does not include the three thousand that were converted under the first sermon, but regards those who now became true believers, and were added to the church; so that there were now eight thousand persons added to it; a great increase indeed! now had Christ the dew of his youth, and now were these fishermen fishers of men indeed: that our Lords feeding five thousand men with five barley loaves and two fishes, should have any regard to the conversion of these five thousand men, is but a conceit.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-4 - The apostles preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. I includes all the happiness of the future state; this they preache through Jesus Christ, to be had through him only. Miserable is their case, to whom the glory of Christ's kingdom is a grief; for since the glory of that kingdom is everlasting, their grief will be everlastin also. The harmless and useful servants of Christ, like the apostles have often been troubled for their work of faith and labour of love when wicked men have escaped. And to this day instances are not wanting, in which reading the Scriptures, social prayer, and religiou conversation meet with frowns and checks. But if we obey the precept of Christ, he will support us.
Greek Textus Receptus
πολλοι 4183 A-NPM δε 1161 CONJ των 3588 T-GPM ακουσαντων 191 5660 V-AAP-GPM τον 3588 T-ASM λογον 3056 N-ASM επιστευσαν 4100 5656 V-AAI-3P και 2532 CONJ εγενηθη 1096 5675 V-AOI-3S ο 3588 T-NSM αριθμος 706 N-NSM των 3588 T-GPM ανδρων 435 N-GPM ωσει 5616 ADV χιλιαδες 5505 A-NPF πεντε 4002 A-NUI
Vincent's NT Word Studies
4. The number was about five thousand. Translate ejgenhqh as Rev., came to be; indicating the addition to the original number of the many that believed.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
4:4 {Men} (andrwn). Strictly, men and not women, for anqrwpos is the term for both men and women. But in #Lu 11:31 andres seems to include both men and women and that is possible here, though by no means certain, for see #Mt 14:21 where the women and children are expressly excepted.
