Acts 4:33 (DBY)

Passage

and with great power did the apostles give witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

Nearby Context

Acts 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness.

Acts 4:32 And the heart and soul of the multitude of those that had believed were one, and not one said that anything of what he possessed was his own, but all things were common to them;

Acts 4:33 and with great power did the apostles give witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.

Acts 4:34 For neither was there any one in want among them; for as many as were owners of lands or houses, selling them, brought the price of what was sold

Acts 4:35 and laid it at the feet of the apostles; and distribution was made to each according as any one might have need.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "grace", "great", "power", "apostles", "give", "witness", "resurrection", and "lord". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "grace" and "great", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 32's "And the heart and soul of the..." into verse 34's "For neither was there any one in...", so "grace" and "great" belong inside that flow. In Acts context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "grace" and "great" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.