Acts 4:4 Cross References - Mace

⁴ however, many who heard Peter's discourse, believed, to the number of about five thousand people.

²⁴ verily, verily I say unto you, when a corn of wheat is thrown into the ground, there it lies a single grain unless it dies: but if it die, it becomes very fruitful.

⁴¹ then they that embraced his doctrine, were baptized: and there were about three thousand converts made that very day.

²⁴ some believed what he had said, but others did not believe:

¹⁴ but thanks be to God, who maketh me triumph, thro' Christ, and spreads his healing doctrine by me, in eevery place: ¹⁵ for God is pleased to accept my christian labours, in favour both of those who are in a saving, and of those who are in a ruinous state: ¹⁶ by the one my preaching is taken as a deadly poison, to the other it is a reviving potion. and who is so sufficient for such a commission? ¹⁷ for we are not like others, who adulterate the word of God; but we preach the pure gospel of Christ, as I receiv'd it from God, and as in the presence of God.

¹² Now I would have you know, my brethren, that what has happen'd to me, has only conduc'd to the progress of the gospel; ¹³ so that the whole court and publick are well appriz'd that I am a prisoner upon the account of Jesus Christ. ¹⁴ even many of our brethren, encourag'd by my bonds, preach the word with greater freedom and intrepidity. ¹⁵ it is true, there are some who preach Christ out of a spirit of envy and contention; but others do it out of pure affection. ¹⁶ those preach the gospel of Christ, not in sincerity, but from a principle of contention, with a view to inflame the persecution against me: ¹⁷ the others act from affection, as knowing that I suffer for having defended the gospel. ¹⁸ is it not however some advantage? since in either way, whether it be occasionally, or professedly, Christ is preach'd; which is now, and always will be matter of joy to me.

⁹ for which I suffer even the chains of a malefactor: but the word of God is not so confin'd. ¹⁰ I therefore bear with every thing for the sake of the converts, that they may obtain that salvation, which Jesus Christ has procur'd us, even eternal glory.