Verse Lens · Expanded explanation
Acts 5:12 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 12. 12And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.
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Quick Meaning
Returns to many apostolic signs at Solomon's porch.
Read It With
- Acts 5:12–5:16
Acts 5:12 returns to many apostolic signs at Solomon's porch; within Acts 5:12–5:16, the controlling movement is that Apostolic signs occur at Solomon's porch, public responses mix distance and esteem, believers increase, and crowds bring sick and afflicted people seeking healing.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Returns to many apostolic signs at Solomon's porch. This precise contribution belongs inside “Signs and public hope surround the apostles” because Apostolic signs occur at Solomon's porch, public responses mix distance and esteem, believers increase, and crowds bring sick and afflicted people seeking healing.
Follow the Context
- Apostolic signs occur at Solomon's porch, public responses mix distance and esteem, believers increase, and crowds bring sick and afflicted people seeking healing.
- The unit distinguishes narrated event, participant speech, the narrator's framing, material uncertainty, and the ethical boundary: The summary does not validate relic commerce, shadow-healing ministries, anti-medical claims, or unverified miracle statistics.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
The summary does not validate relic commerce, shadow-healing ministries, anti-medical claims, or unverified miracle statistics.
What Remains True
Because Acts 5:12 returns to many apostolic signs at Solomon's porch, faithful witness must preserve the verse's speaker, narrated setting, people affected, and the full movement of Acts 5:12–5:16 before drawing an enduring claim.
How It Can Shape Life
- For Acts 5:12, first identify this verse role—returns to many apostolic signs at Solomon's porch; then explain the contextual meaning in Acts 5:12–5:16; preserve the proportionate truth about accountable witness; finally apply this boundary: The summary does not validate relic commerce, shadow-healing ministries, anti-medical claims, or unverified miracle statistics.
Teach It Back
Explain Acts 5:12's precise role in Acts 5:12–5:16. Distinguish narrator and speaker, include the first Jewish, Gentile, household, disabled, enslaved, imprisoned, or Roman horizon as relevant, disclose the material uncertainty, and name one conclusion this verse does not authorize.
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Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Acts 5:12–5:16 — Signs and public hope surround the apostlesSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? probable
Where care is needed
The shadow report describes popular expectation without explicitly stating that Peter's shadow healed anyone; Luke distinguishes what people hoped from what the narrator affirms.
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 5:12–5:16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 5:12-5:16
Open the Acts Greek text file ↗Lexical and grammatical evidence
STEP Bible Data
Tyndale House Cambridge
Tyndale House Cambridge, repository snapshot verified 2026
Supports: Morphology and lexical cross-check for words explicitly discussed in this unit.
Exact location: STEP Bible Data, TAGNT rows for Acts 5:12-5:16
Open source ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Acts
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, translation, language, geography, chronology, and historical notes actually printed for the unit.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Acts PDF, printed pp. 2104-2205, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to 5:12–5:16
Open source ↗open university bible study course
Acts of the Apostles Course and Study Guides
Yale Divinity School faculty
Yale Bible Study, 2019
Supports: Introductory critical orientation to the unit's place in Luke-Acts, with contested judgments retained as interpretations.
Exact location: Yale Bible Study Acts course, course unit 'Deepening Community, Growing Mission,' Acts 5-8 study guide
Open source ↗open confessional commentary
The Acts of the Apostles
Alan J. Thompson
The Gospel Coalition, 2023
Supports: One complete confessional commentary reading, independently checked against the text and critical controls.
Exact location: Thompson, online Acts commentary, heading and paragraphs explicitly covering Acts 5:12–5:16
Open source ↗peer reviewed article abstract and metadata
The Jewishness of Luke-Acts: How Recent Scholarship Has Challenged the View that Luke-Acts Is Pro-Gentile and Anti-Jewish
Joshua Paul Smith
The Journal of Theological Studies 72.2, 2021
Supports: Abstract-supported control for Jewish continuity and Gentile inclusion in Acts 5:12–5:16, not a settlement of every conflict scene.
Exact location: Smith, JTS 72.2 (2021), pp. 738-765, official abstract and bibliographic record
Open source ↗