“Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.”
Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day — the response (apodechōmai, receive, accept) to Peter's message results in mass baptism. Three thousand converts (chiliades treis) is extraordinary and reminiscent of Exodus 32:28 (three thousand die in the golden calf incident, but now three thousand are baptized into life). The daily addition is the church's numerical growth (prosithemi, added, accounted, enrolled).
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