The natural reading of this verse confirms that the healing miracles performed by the apostles served to encourage lots of different people to come to the apostles. Most probably it was the main street in Jerusalem where the sick were taken by their relatives. This street was paved and much wider than other streets.1 The peoples’ faith in the power at work through the apostles was such that they trusted in the mere shadow of Peter to heal the sick. Presumably he and the other apostles would walk along the main street on their way to the temple courts or to someone’s home for a meeting. The mention of Peter’s shadow suggests that the people who brought the sick were ordinary citizens and not necessarily part of the church.2
15 so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.