With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
At set times they joined the Jews in temple prayer, they preached no sermons there, as the rulers would not endure it. Afterward they gathered privately for the Lord's Supper and their ordinary meal with gladness and singleness of heart. Their pure and blameless conversation won them favor with the people and drew converts, yet know this: it was the Lord's work, not Peter's sermon or the apostles' power, that added to the church daily.
AI summary
Three thousand baptized in one day, a fitting inauguration of the new kingdom under the Spirit's economy. The difficulty of submersion in so short a time and with so little water at hand suggests they may have already employed sprinkling or baptism in houses with large vessels.
AI summary
Commenting on Acts 2:41-47
daily . . . in the temple--observing the hours of Jewish worship. and breaking bread from house to house--rather, "at home" (Margin), that is, in private, as contrasted with their temple-worship, but in some stated place or places of meeting. eat their meat with gladness--"exultation." and singleness of heart.