“And 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.”
The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon's Colonnade - the transition from judgment to miracles shows that the church's purity enables its power. 'Many signs and wonders' (sēmeia kai terata) mirrors the language of Jesus's ministry (Luke 4:36, 5:26). Solomon's Colonnade (stoa Solomōntos) was a covered portico on the east side of the temple, a Jewish space where apostolic authority could unfold without immediately provoking Roman concern.
Church Fathers on Acts 5:12
the more added unto the Lord, believers, multitudes both of men and of women, insomuch that they brought out into the streets their impotent folk, and laid them upon couches and beds, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them. Acts 5:12-15 For Peter was the wonderful one, and he to whom they more gave heed both because of his public harangue, the first and the second and the third, and because of the miracle; for he it was that wrought the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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