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Gill's Exposition
And sold their possessions and goods..... Their houses and lands, their fields and vineyards, their goods, moveable or immoveable:
and parted them to all men; that were of their society, not to…
Barnes' Notes
All that believed - That is, that believed that Jesus was the Messiah; for that was the distinguishing point by which they were known from others. Were together - Were united; were joined in the same…
Adam Clarke
And, all that believed - Οἱ πιστευοντες, The believers, i.e. those who conscientiously credited the doctrine concerning the incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ, and…
We often speak of the primitive church, and appeal to it, and to the history of it; in these verses we have the history of the truly primitive church, of the first days of it, its state of infancy…
Cambridge Bible
were together, and had all things common With the words of the angels still in their ears (Act 1:11), "This same Jesus shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven," the disciples…
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