Acts 5:16

5:16 A crowd of people from the towns around Jerusalem ¹  also came together, bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits. ²  They ³  were all ⁴  being healed.

Acts 8:40

8:40 Philip, however, found himself ⁵  at Azotus, ⁶  and as he passed through the area, ⁷  he proclaimed the good news ⁸  to all the towns ⁹  until he came to Caesarea. ¹⁰ 

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² sn Unclean spirits refers to evil spirits.

³ tn Literally a relative pronoun, “who.” In English, however, a relative clause (“bringing the sick and those troubled by unclean spirits, who were all being healed”) could be understood to refer only to the second group (meaning only those troubled by unclean spirits were being healed) or even that the unclean spirits were being healed. To avoid this ambiguity the pronoun “they” was used to begin a new English sentence.

⁴ sn They were all being healed. Note how the healings that the apostles provided were comprehensive in their consistency.

⁵ tn Or “appeared.”

⁶ sn Azotus was a city on the coast of southern Palestine, known as Ashdod in OT times.

⁷ tn The words “the area” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

⁸ tn Or “he preached the gospel.”

⁹ tn Or “cities.”

¹⁰ sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1.

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