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Acts 5:12-16

Signs and Wonders Among the Apostles

St Peter Healing the Sick with his Shadow, Masaccio
St Peter Healing the Sick with his Shadow, Masaccio, 1426-1427Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence / Wikimedia Commons, public domain

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"And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women." (Acts 5:14)

Luke describes the early Jerusalem church gathering publicly at Solomon's Portico, performing many signs and wonders through the apostles. Crowds bring their sick into the streets, hoping even Peter's shadow might heal them, and people flock in from the surrounding towns.

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