Signs and wonders in Solomon’s Colonnade
Early Church · Draft · BSB
Content revision: adf4c7d39d87596b · No editorial review date recorded
Date: c. AD 30–35. Between Pentecost and the conversion of Saul; Acts gives no exact dates.
Many signs and wonders are done through the apostles. People carry the sick into the streets, even from the towns around Jerusalem, and the high priest and the Sadducees are filled with jealousy.
Primary Scripture
5:12 The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people, and with one accord the believers gathered together in Solomon’s Colonnade.
5:13 Although the people regarded them highly, no one else dared to join them.
5:14 Yet more and more believers were brought to the Lord—large numbers of both men and women.
5:15 As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.
5:16 Crowds also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, and all of them were healed.
5:17 Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out
Location evidence
Event map marker: Proposed site; [longitude, latitude] = [35.23494, 31.77744]. This is a teaching marker, not an exact event venue.
Solomon's Portico: Proposed site. Coordinates [longitude, latitude]: [35.23494, 31.77744]. Classification source: rule.
Interpretation and reuse
Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.
Record source: theographic (316)
Record source: editorial
Events and places adapted from Theographic Bible Metadata (github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata), CC BY-SA 4.0. This adapted data is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm