Acts 2:46
Acts 2:4646With one accord they continued to meet daily in the temple courts and to break bread from house to house, sharing their meals with gladness and sincerity of heart,
The Watchtower rarely features in its door-to-door case. The verse describes the early Christians eating meals together, which fits the JW framework of congregational fellowship without raising questions about public-preaching method.
Read the verse with side by side. The Greek phrase in both verses is identical — κατ' οἶκον ("in each house" / "according to house") — and the natural sense is locative: teaching, eating, and meeting happened in homes, the first-century house-church setting. Paired with , , , and Philemon 2 — all of which describe congregations hosted in private homes — sketches the real shape of early Christian gathering: small, domestic, hospitable, and led by ordinary believers whose homes were opened for the purpose. The picture is house-church fellowship, not residential canvassing.
The NWT renders κατ' οἶκον at as "in different homes" — a locative sense that is faithful to the Greek. Seven chapters later at , the same Greek phrase is rendered "from house to house" (directional). The inconsistency matters because is a load-bearing text for JW door-to-door ministry, and the door-to-door reading depends on the directional rendering there. If the NWT's translators judged κατ' οἶκον to mean "in homes" at 2:46, the same judgement applies at 5:42. The divergence between the two renderings reveals a theological choice rather than a lexical one.