Acts 2:42-47·~1 min

The Fellowship of Believers

The believers devote themselves to the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking of bread, and prayer. Awe comes over everyone, and the apostles perform many wonders and signs.

T⁴²hey devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. ⁴³A sense of awe came over everyone, and the apostles performed many wonders and signs.

All the believers are together and hold everything in common. They sell possessions and goods and distribute them to anyone in need.

⁴⁴All the believers were together and had everything in common. ⁴⁵Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need.

They meet daily in the temple courts and from house to house, breaking bread and sharing meals with gladness and sincerity of heart. They praise God, enjoy the favor of the people, and the Lord adds to their number daily those who are being saved.

⁴⁶With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart, ⁴⁷praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Section summaryThe believers devote themselves to the apostles’ teaching, fellowship, bread, and prayer. Awe rests on everyone as signs continue, possessions are shared for need, and the community lives daily in the temple and in homes with gladness, sincerity, praise, and growing numbers.

Role in the chapterThis closing movement portrays the settled life that follows the Spirit’s arrival and the crowd’s response.