The Conversion of a Great Company of Priests

The success of the Gospel is evident in the first five chapters of Acts. What began with about "three thousand souls" soon increased by the addition of "about five thousand" men, and then "multitudes of both men and women." The growth of the church is described in Acts 6 as "multiplied greatly." However, it is the conversion of this "great company of the priests." That defined the power of the Gospel to convict men that Jesus was the Christ.