<p>5:15 <em>So much so</em>- This is picking up from the end of :12. Verses 13 and 14 are a parenthesis, and some versions place them in brackets. What had been done by Peter in the temple area, they believed could be done outside it. Again the Lord was developing the thought in their minds that actually there was nothing so special about that temple, not even Solomon's portico, the part of the structure believed to date back to Solomon's time. What was achieved in the temple area could be achieved on the streets...</p><p><i>That they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that, as Peter came by</i>- See on 5:6 <em>Carried him out</em>. The scene recalls that of Mt. 14:35: &ldquo;And when the men of that place recognised him, they sent word to all in that region and brought to him all who were sick&rdquo;. In the same way as the Lord stretched forth His hand and saved Peter, so He stretches forth His hand, Peter observed, to save all who would come to Him (Mt. 14:31 = Acts 4:30). But Peter is framed as Jesus, in that he too stretched out his hand to save others as Jesus had done to him (Mt. 14:35 = Acts 5:15,16; Mt. 14:31 = Acts 3:7), bidding them come through the water of baptism as Jesus had done to him.</p><p><em>At the least his shadow</em>- Perhaps in reference to how the mustard seed of the Gospel would become a tree under whose shadow unclean birds would come (Mk. 4:32 s.w.). The sick people were likely all ritually unclean, as were those who carried them. But it was exactly these types who were cured.</p><p><em>Might fall on some of them</em>- Gk. 'overshadow'. As Peter had been overshadowed s.w. by the Lord's glory, so now he was called to reflect that same glory (Lk. 9:34). What we benefit from at the Lord's hands often becomes ours to share to others.</p>