Having favor (εχοντες χαριν). Cf. Luke 2:52 of the Boy Jesus.

Added (προσετιθε). Imperfect acti…

Praising God. See Luke 24:53.

And having favour. See Luke 2:52.

With all the people. That is, with the gre…

Having favour with all the people.—The new life of the Apostles, probably in part their liberal almsgiving, had revived t…

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continu…

Having favor. This is the fruit of an innocent life: to find favor even among strangers. Yet we need not doubt that they were also hated b…

Praising God
Not only for their temporal mercies and enjoyments of life, which they partook of in so delightful and …

In these verses, we have the history of the truly primitive church, of its first days; this was indeed its state of infancy, yet, like infancy itse…