But many of them who heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
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Interlinear Gloss
AD 1480
This again is of God’s ordering. For those who now believe were more numerous than the former. Therefore it was that in their presence they bound the Apostles, to make them also more fearful. But the reverse took place. And they examine them not before the people, but privately, that the hearers may not profit by their boldness.
