13 And none of the rest dared to join them, but the people spoke highly of them. 14 And even more believers in the Lord[a] were being added, large numbers of both men and women, 15 so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and put them[b] on cots and mats[c] so that when[d] Peter came by, at least his[e] shadow would fall on some of them.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 5:14 Or “even more believers were being added to the Lord”
  2. Acts 5:15 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Acts 5:15 Or “mattresses”
  4. Acts 5:15 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“came by”)
  5. Acts 5:15 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun