Acts 5:2

kept back some of the purchase price, with the connivance of his wife. He brought only a part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

In Context

1But a man named Ananias who, with his wife Sapphira, sold a farm of his,

3"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan so filled your heart that you are lying to the Holy Spirit, and keeping back part of the price of the land?

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Cross References

Matthew 23:5"For they do all their good deeds to be gazed on of men. They widen their phylacteries,

Acts 4:34Nor was there any one of them in want, for all who owned houses or lands would sell them and bring the price of the things that were sold, and lay it at the apostles’ feet;

Acts 5:3"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan so filled your heart that you are lying to the Holy Spirit, and keeping back part of the price of the land?

1 Timothy 6:10For the love of money is a source of all kinds of evil; and in their eager desire to be rich some have been led astray form the faith, and have pierced themselves with many sorrows.

Matthew Henry on Acts 5:2-12

The Case of Ananias and Sapphira. 1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, 2 And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. 3 But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine… Read the whole commentary →

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