Acts 4:31 - Exposition

Wherein they were gathered for when they were assembled, A.V. When they had prayed . When they had finished the preceding prayer. The place was shaken , perhaps by a mighty wind, as in Acts 2:2 . The word σαλεύεσθαι is properly used of ships or of the sea agitated and tossed by the wind; so Matthew 11:7 , "A reed shaken by the wind." But it is also applied to the rocking caused by an earthquake ( Acts 16:26 ), which maybe the kind of shaking here meant. In this fresh outpouring or the Spirit, whereby they were enabled to speak the word of God with boldness , they had a direct and immediate answer to their prayer (see Isaiah 65:24 ).