<p>14:3- see on Acts 17:34.</p><p><i>Therefore they stayed there for a long time speaking boldly in the Lord</i>- Boldness is a repeated characteristic of the early preachers, but their boldness was &quot;in the Lord&quot;, it was a true sense of being brethren-in-Christ which gave them that boldness.<br /><i><br /><em>Who bore witness to the word of his grace</em></i>- This was the purpose of the miraculous gifts in the first century- to back up the verbal preaching of the Gospel at a time when there was no written New Testament available.</p><p><em>Granting</em>- Implying they asked for the miracles to be done? The gifts were not possessed continuously by the apostles, they were for specific things at specific times.</p><p><em>Signs and wonders to be done by their hands</em>- The Lord Jesus was the doer of the works, but He worked through the hands of those in Him.</p>