Acts 2:41

Baptism Fellowship and the church

³⁹ This promise belongs to you and your children and to all who are far off—to all whom the Lord our God will call to Himself.”

⁴⁰ With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”

Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.

⁴² They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

⁴³ A sense of awe came over everyone, and the apostles performed many wonders and signs.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.
KJV: Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
WEB: Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
ASV: They then that received his word were baptized: and there were added [unto them] in that day about three thousand souls.
DARBY: Those then who had accepted his word were baptised; and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.
BLB: Therefore those indeed having received his word were baptized, and on that day about three thousand souls were added.

ÅB: De som nå tok imot hans ord, ble døpt, og det ble på den dag lagt til omkring tre tusen sjeler.
OTB: De som tok imot hans budskap ble døpt, og om lag tre tusen ble lagt til deres antall den dagen.
B1930: De som nu tok imot hans ord, blev døpt, og det blev på den dag lagt til omkring tre tusen sjeler.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Acts 4:4
But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.
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Acts 2:47
praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
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Acts 16:31–34
They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, you and your household.”
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John 14:12
Truly, truly, I tell you, whoever believes in Me will also do the works that I am doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.
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Acts 1:15
In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (a gathering of about a hundred and twenty) and said,
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Acts 2:37
When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
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Acts 13:48
When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and glorified the word of the Lord, and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.
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Acts 8:6–8
The crowds gave their undivided attention to Philip’s message and to the signs they saw him perform.
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