plural ‘alternately in their houses’, so that several private houses had served as gathering places for the Jerusalem community. This is, however, to say the least, doubtful. Alongside ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ‘in the Temple’ it can easily mean ‘at home’, just as the house community which gathered in the home of Aquila and Priscilla in Ephesus and Rome (1 Cor. 16:19; Rom. 16:5) and that which gathered in Colossae in the home of Philemon (Philem. 2) and in Laodicea in the home of Nympha (Col. 4:15) are designated