Acts 2:41
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They therefore that received his word were baptized: and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

gladly.

Acts 2:37 Now when they had heard these things, they had compunction in their heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles: What shall we do, men and brethren?

Acts 8:6-8 And the people with one accord were attentive to those things which were said by Philip, hearing, and seeing the miracles which he did. . . .

Acts 13:48 And the Gentiles hearing it were glad and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to life everlasting believed.

Acts 16:31-34 But they said: believe in the Lord Jesus: and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. . . .

Matthew 13:44-46 The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in a field. Which a man having found, hid it, and for joy thereof goeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. . . .

Galatians 4:14,15 You despised not, nor rejected: but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus. . . .

1 Thessalonians 1:6 And you became followers of us and of the Lord: receiving the word in much tribulation, with joy of the Holy Ghost:

were baptized.

Acts 2:38 But Peter said to them: Do penance: and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of your sins. And you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

added.

Acts 2:47 Praising God and having favour with all the people. And the Lord increased daily together such as should be saved.

Acts 1:15 In those days Peter rising up in the midst of the brethren, said (now the number of persons together was about an hundred and twenty):

Acts 4:4 But many of them who had heard the word believed: and the number of the men was made five thousand.

Psalm 72:16,17 And there shall be a firmament on the earth on the tops of mountains, above Libanus shall the fruit thereof be exalted: and they of the city shall flourish like the grass of the earth. . . .

Psalm 110:3 With thee is the principality in the day of thy strength: in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day star I begot thee.

Luke 5:5-7 And Simon answering said to him: Master, we have laboured all the night and have taken nothing: but at thy word I will let down the net. . . .

John 14:12 Otherwise believe for the very works' sake. Amen, amen, I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do: and greater than these shall he do.

Context
Three Thousand Believe
40And with very many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying: Save yourselves from this perverse generation. 41They therefore that received his word were baptized: and there were added in that day about three thousand souls. 42And they were persevering in the doctrine of the apostles and in the communication of the breaking of bread and in prayers.…
Cross References
Acts 2:47
Praising God and having favour with all the people. And the Lord increased daily together such as should be saved.

Acts 3:23
And it shall be, that every soul which will not hear that prophet shall be destroyed from among the people.

Acts 4:4
But many of them who had heard the word believed: and the number of the men was made five thousand.

Acts 7:14
And Joseph sending, called thither Jacob, his father, and all his kindred, seventy-five souls.

Acts 27:37
And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

Romans 13:1
Let every soul be subject to higher powers. For there is no power but from God: and those that are ordained of God.

1 Peter 3:20
Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

Revelation 16:3
And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea. And there came blood as it were of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea.

Lexicon
Those who
οἱ (hoi)
Article - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 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 Greek 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 Greek 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 Greek 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 Greek 907: Lit: I dip, submerge, but specifically of ceremonial dipping; I baptize.

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

about
ὡσεὶ (hōsei)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 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 Greek 5153: Three thousand. From tris and chilioi; three times a thousand.

were added
προσετέθησαν (prosetethēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 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 Greek 5590: From psucho; breath, i.e. spirit, abstractly or concretely.

that
ἐκείνῃ (ekeinē)
Demonstrative Pronoun - Dative Feminine Singular
Strong's Greek 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 Greek 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.


Additional Translations
Those who embraced his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to the believers that day.

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

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

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

Those then who had accepted his word were baptised; and there were added in that day about three thousand souls.

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

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

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

Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. There were added 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,
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