Acts 2:41 (WEB)
Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added that day about three thousand souls.
Catechism · 2
The Sacrament of Baptism
“The apostles and their collaborators offer Baptism to anyone who believed in Jesus: Jews, the God-fearing, pagans.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Acts 2:41; 8:12-13; 10:48; 16:15.
Man
“In Sacred Scripture the term "soul" often refers to human life or the entire human person.” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Mt 16:25-26; Jn 15:13; Acts 2:41
Fathers and councils · 16
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And there were, in one day, baptized three, and four, and five thousand men.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 41, Acts iv. 4.
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Cyril of Jerusalem
“Canst thou attach the souls of the hearers?” — editor's note: προσθεῖναι. Cf. Acts ii. 41: προσετέθησαν . According to some mss. the sentence would run thus: “Hast thou been entrusted with the word of teaching? Be a good…
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Catena Aurea on Luke
- Cyril of AlexandriaCatena Aurea on Luke
“(Acts 2:41, 44.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“In a word, have there come Jews (for thence were the Apostles, thence many thousands of men at first betraying, afterwards believing), and have there not come Greeks; or have there come Greeks, and not come Romans; or have there come Romans, and not come Barbarians?” — editor's note: Acts ii. 41.
Read the whole comment“There remaineth the body’s deliverance: for on His arising and ascending into the Heavens, and sending the Holy Ghost from above, there were converted to His faith they that at His death did rage, and out of enemies they were made friends through His grace, not through their righteousness.” — editor's note: Acts i. 9, ii. 41.
Read the whole comment“Hence also were those after His resurrection, of whom on one day three and on another five thousand were baptized, welded into one soul and one heart by the fire of love; of whom no one spoke of anything as his own, but to them all things were common.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 41, iv. 4.
Read the whole comment“At first suddenly three, afterwards five thousand; all living in unity, all laying the price of their possessions, when they had sold them, at the Apostles’ feet, that it might be distributed to each, as each had need, who had one soul and one heart toward God.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 41, iv. 32.
Read the whole comment“…out of them more than five hundred brethren, to whom the Lord showed Himself after His Resurrection: out of their number were so many thousands baptized, who laid the price of their possessions at the Apostles’ feet.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 41.
Read the whole comment“If those believed afterwards who had killed, should not those believe who for a little while doubted?” — editor's note: Acts ii. 41.
Read the whole comment“…the preaching to them by the Apostle Peter that it behoved Christ to suffer and rise again, they were pricked in their hearts with the grief of repentance, that that might come to pass among the baptized which is said in the beginning of that Psalm, “Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, and whose…” — editor's note: Acts ii. 37, 41
Read the whole comment“…and believed; and they who in their rage shed His blood, now in the spirit of faith drank it; to wit, those three thousand, and those five thousand Jews whom now He saw there, when He said, “When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am [He].”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 37, 41; iv. 4.
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John Chrysostom
“This the apostles also attained, who cast away all, and took no thought: also, the “five thousand,” and the “three thousand.”” — editor's note: Acts iv. 4, and ii. 41.
Read the whole comment“And that there is nothing over-burdensome in this saying, the “three thousand,”bear witness, and the “five thousand,”who had but one home, one table, one soul; for “the multitude of them that believed,” we read, “were of one heart and of one soul.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 41.
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Leo the Great
“They then that received his word were baptized, and there were added in that day about three thousand.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 37–41.
Read the whole comment“For to you is the promise, and to your sons, and to all that are afar off, whomsoever our Lord God has called,” and soon after the Scripture goes on to say: “they therefore that received his word were baptized, and there were added on that day about 3,000 souls.”” — editor's note: Acts ii. 37–41.
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Clement of Alexandria
“And in the Acts of the Apostles you will find this, word for word, “Those then who received his word were baptized;” but those who would not obey kept themselves aloof.” — editor's note: Acts ii. 41.
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Cross-references · 25
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.23.
Cited together in Catechism §1226.
Cited together in Catechism §1226.
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.23.
Cited together in Catechism §1226.
Cited together in Catechism §1226.
Cited together in Catechism §1226.
Cited together in Catechism §1226.
Cited together in Catechism §1226.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.18.
Cited together in The Stromata, or Miscellanies I.18.
Cited together in Catechism §363.
Cited together in Catechism §363.
Cited together in Catechism §363.
Cited together in Catechism §363.
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 14:15–24 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 14:15–24 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 14:15–24 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 14:15–24 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 14:15–24 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Cyril of Alexandria on Luke 14:15–24 (6) (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Against Heresies IV.23.
Cited together in Catechism §363.
Cited together in Catechism §363.