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 8:7

8:7 For unclean spirits, ⁵  crying with loud shrieks, were coming out of many who were possessed, ⁶  and many paralyzed and lame people were healed.

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¹ map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

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 sn The expression unclean spirits refers to evil supernatural spirits which were ceremonially unclean, and which caused the persons possessed by them to be ceremonially unclean.

⁶ tn Grk “For [in the case of] many who had unclean spirits, they were coming out, crying in a loud voice.”