Acts 4:4 - Exposition

But for howbeit, A.V. ; that for which, A.V.; came to be for was, A.V. The number of the men ; strictly, of the males ( ἀνδρῶν ) ( Acts 5:14 ), but probably used here more loosely of men and women. It is not clear whether the five thousand is exclusive of or includes the three thousand converts at the Feast of Pentecost; but the grammar rather favors, the former, as there is nothing in the word ἀνδρῶν , itself to signify "disciples," or "believers," and therefore it is more naturally referred to those of whom it had just been predicated that, having heard the Word, they believed it.