Acts 2:41
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.
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Study Note
The summary of Pentecost's immediate effect — 'so those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls' — presents the first day of the church as simultaneously the fulfillment of the Spirit's outpouring (verses 17-21) and the beginning of the disciple community's dramatic expansion. The passive 'were added' (prosetethesan) implies divine agency: the Lord adds to the church (verse 47), making numerical growth the fruit of divine initiative rather than human recruitment. The three thousand converts reverses the three thousand who died at the golden calf apostasy (Exodus 32:28) in a typological reading suggested by several patristic interpreters, connecting Pentecost to Sinai as a life-giving counter to death-dealing apostasy. The verse establishes the pattern for Acts' subsequent growth summaries, framing the church's expansion as the ongoing fulfillment of the Joel prophecy quoted in the sermon.
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They then that received his word were baptized: and there were added unto them in that day about three thousand souls.
then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,
Then those who gave hearing to his words had baptism: and about three thousand souls were joined to them that day.
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