...prevails ; but so it was before the overthrow of the Jewish polity : " the ' word of God increased ; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem...company of the priests were obedient to the faith." (Acts vi, 7.) * It is remarkable, that whilst contending for a literal interpretation of these words,...

...CAVE'S Life of Ignatius, p. 101, women ;" and in the sixth, that " the word of GOD still increased, and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem...company of the priests were obedient to the faith. In addition to all these successive accounts of the vast increase of believers, we are informed in...

...contributed for the support of the needy; and it is said again, that the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem...company of the priests were obedient to the faith. It would not be too much to suppose from these 10 several intimations, that before the persecution...

...Jerusalem by the Romans ; for we read on the one hand, in Acts vi. 7, that " the word of God increased, and the number " of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly, and a great " company of the priests was obedient to the faith ;" and in chap. xxi. 20, " Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of " Jews...

...though the gospel was preached only in Jerusalem and its vicinity, " multitudes both of men and women," and " a great company of the priests, were obedient to the faith."* Now, the converts being driven by a fierce persecution from Jerusalem, " went everywhere preaching...

...though the gospel was preached only in Jerusalem and its vicinity, " multitudes both of men and women," and "a great company of the priests, were obedient to the faith."* Now, the converts being driven by a fierce persecution from Jerusalem, " went everywhere preaching...

...though the gospel was preached only in Jerusalem and its vicinity, " multitudes both of men and women," and "a great company of the priests, were obedient to the faith."* Now, the converts being driven by a fierce persecution from Jerusalem, " went everywhere preaching...

...Jerusalem, that "the number of them which believed was about five thousand;" and again, (ACTS vi. 7>) that "the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem...company of the priests were obedient to the faith:" so that even if the "many myriads" of believers, named in ACTS xxi. 20, whom Doddridge, on a reduced...

...a part in that scene of crime, are we not afterwards informed, that 'the word of God increased, and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem...company of the PRIESTS were obedient to the faith?' But this only proves the sovereign grace of God and the infinite merit of Christ's blood, in including...

...three thousand persons immediately joined themselves to them, and were baptized. Soon afterwards, " the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem...company of the priests were obedient to the faith." One of the disciples, named Stephen, who had been chosen to the office of Deacon in the church, was...