Acts 5:2
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.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
1But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
Cross References
2 Kings 5:21So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw one running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?
Malachi 3:8Will a man rob God? yet ye rob me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
Matthew 23:5But all their works they do for to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
Acts 4:34For neither was there among them any that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
Acts 5:3But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?
1 Timothy 6:10For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through 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 →