Acts 2:41
New International Version
Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

New Living Translation
Those who believed what Peter said were baptized and added to the church that day—about 3,000 in all.

English Standard Version
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Berean Standard Bible
Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.

Berean Literal Bible
Therefore those indeed having received his word were baptized, and on that day about three thousand souls were added.

King James Bible
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

New King James Version
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.

New American Standard Bible
So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.

NASB 1995
So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.

NASB 1977
So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Legacy Standard Bible
So then, those who had received his word were baptized; and that day there were added about three thousand souls.

Amplified Bible
So then, those who accepted his message were baptized; and on that day about 3,000 souls were added [to the body of believers].

Christian Standard Bible
So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added to them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about 3,000 people were added to them.

American Standard Version
They then that received his word were baptized: and there were added unto them in that day about three thousand souls.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And people among them readily received his word, and they believed and were immersed, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Contemporary English Version
On that day about 3,000 believed his message and were baptized.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They therefore that received his word, were baptized; and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

English Revised Version
They then that received his word were baptized: and there were added unto them in that day about three thousand souls.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Those who accepted what Peter said were baptized. That day about 3,000 people were added [to the group].

Good News Translation
Many of them believed his message and were baptized, and about three thousand people were added to the group that day.

International Standard Version
So those who welcomed his message were baptized. That day about 3,000 people were added to their number.

Literal Standard Version
then those, indeed, who gladly received his word were immersed, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,

Majority Standard Bible
Those who gladly embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.

New American Bible
Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand persons were added that day.

NET Bible
So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.

New Revised Standard Version
So those who welcomed his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand persons were added.

New Heart English Bible
Then those who received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then they that gladly received his word, were baptized: and the same day there were added to them about three thousand souls.

Weymouth New Testament
Those, therefore, who joyfully welcomed his Message were baptized; and on that one day about three thousand persons were added to them;

World English Bible
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.

Young's Literal Translation
then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Three Thousand Believe
40With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.” 41 Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day. 42They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.…

Cross References
Acts 2:47
praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Acts 3:23
Everyone who does not listen to Him will be completely cut off from among his people.'

Acts 4:4
But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.

Acts 7:14
Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.

Acts 27:37
In all, there were 276 of us on board.

Romans 13:1
Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which is from God. The authorities that exist have been appointed by God.

1 Peter 3:20
who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In the ark a few people, only eight souls, were saved through water.


Treasury of Scripture

Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added to them about three thousand souls.

gladly.

Acts 2:37
Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

Acts 8:6-8
And the people with one accord gave heed unto those things which Philip spake, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did…

Acts 13:48
And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.

were baptized.

Acts 2:38
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

added.

Acts 2:47
Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

Acts 1:15
And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)

Acts 4:4
Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.

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Acts 2
1. The apostles, filled with the Holy Spirit, and speaking various languages,
12. are admired by some, and derided by others;
14. whom Peter disproves;
37. he baptizes a great number who were converted;
41. who afterwards devoutly and charitably converse together;
43. the apostles working many miracles,
46. and God daily increasing his church.














(41) They that gladly received his word were baptized.--This was, we must remember, no new emotion. Not four years had passed since there had been a like eagerness to rush to the baptism of John. (See Notes on Matthew 3:5; Matthew 11:12.)

Three thousand souls.--The largeness of the number has been urged as rendering it probable that the baptism was by affusion, not immersion. On the other hand, (1) immersion had clearly been practised by John, and was involved in the original meaning of the word, and it is not likely that the rite should have been curtailed of its full proportions at the very outset. (2) The symbolic meaning of the act required immersion in order that it might be clearly manifested, and Romans 6:4, and 1Peter 3:21, seem almost of necessity to imply the more complete mode. The swimming-baths of Bethesda and Siloam (see Notes on John 5:7; John 9:7), or the so-called Fountain of the Virgin, near the Temple enclosure, or the bathing-places within the Tower of Antony (Jos. Wars, v. 5, ? 8), may well have helped to make the process easy. The sequel shows (1) that many converts were made from the Hellenistic Jews who were present at the Feast (Acts 6:1); and (2) that few, if any, of the converts were of the ruling class (Acts 4:1). It is obvious that some of these converts may have gone back to the cities whence they came, and may have been the unknown founders of the Church at Damascus, or Alexandria, or Rome itself. . . .

Verse 41. - They then for then they, A.V.; received for gladly received, A.V. and T.R.; there were added unto them in that day for the same day there were added unto them, A.V. Gladly received. The best manuscripts omit ἀσμενως, which, indeed, is superfluous, as the word ἀποδέχομαι contains in itself the idea of a kind reception - a welcome (Luke 8:40; Acts 15:4; Acts 24:3).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Those who
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

embraced
ἀποδεξάμενοι (apodexamenoi)
Verb - Aorist Participle Middle - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 588: To receive, welcome, entertain (with hospitality), embrace. From apo and dechomai; to take fully, i.e. Welcome, approve.

his
αὐτοῦ (autou)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

message
λόγον (logon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3056: From lego; something said; by implication, a topic, also reasoning or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, the Divine Expression.

were baptized,
ἐβαπτίσθησαν (ebaptisthēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 907: Lit: I dip, submerge, but specifically of ceremonial dipping; I baptize.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

about
ὡσεὶ (hōsei)
Adverb
Strong's 5616: As if, as it were, like; with numbers: about. From hos and ei; as if.

three thousand
τρισχίλιαι (trischiliai)
Adjective - Nominative Feminine Plural
Strong's 5153: Three thousand. From tris and chilioi; three times a thousand.

were added
προσετέθησαν (prosetethēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 4369: To place (put) to, add; I do again. From pros and tithemi; to place additionally, i.e. Lay beside, annex, repeat.

[ to the believers ]
ψυχαὶ (psychai)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Plural
Strong's 5590: From psucho; breath, i.e. spirit, abstractly or concretely.

that
ἐκείνῃ (ekeinē)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 1565: That, that one there, yonder. From ekei; that one (neuter) thing); often intensified by the article prefixed.

day.
ἡμέρᾳ (hēmera)
Noun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.


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