Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 5:14

"and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of them and women;" — Acts 5:14 (ASV)

Added to the Lord.—Here, probably, the word is used in its definite New Testament sense for the Lord Jesus.

Both of men and women.—The mention of women forms an introduction to the dissensions connected with the “widows” in Acts 6:1 and following. This focus is itself characteristic of St. Luke as a writer.

He had seen and known the effect of the new Religion in raising women to a higher life, and his knowledge of its history was in great measure derived from them. (See Introduction to St. Luke’s Gospel.) So, in Acts 8:3, women are named as prominent among the sufferers in the first general persecution.