Verse Acts 5:2. _KEPT BACK_ PART _OF THE PRICE_] Ananias and Sapphira were evidently persons who professed faith in Christ with the rest of the disciples. While all were making sacrifices for the pre...
AND KEPT BACK - The word used here means properly “to separate, to part:” and then it means to “separate surreptitiously or clandestinely for our own use” a part of public property, as taxes, etc. It...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1)._ 2. Signs and wonders by the Apostles (Acts 5:11). 3. The second arrest of the Apostles and their Deliverance (Acts 5:17). 4. Before the Council ...
ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA. Barnabas-' unworthy counterpart is Ananias, who, in league with his wife, was unwilling to part with all his property, but anxious to appear to have done so. Their crime was that...
A man called Ananias, together with his wife Sapphire, sold a bit of ground he had, and surreptitiously kept back part of the price, and his wife knew about it. He brought some part of the price and l...
TROUBLE IN THE CHURCH (Acts 5:1-11)...
KEPT BACK. Greek. _noaphizomai._ Only here, Acts 5:3. Tit 9:10. OF. from. App-104. BEING PRIVY TO. being conscious of. Greek. _suneidon._ Only here, Acts 12:12; Acts 14:6;...
Acts 5:1. Account of Ananias and Sapphira The narrative with which this chapter commences is one which none but a veracious narrator would have inserted where it stands. The last chapter concludes wi...
_and kept back part of the price_ i.e. while at the same time they professed to be bringing the whole sum into the common fund. The portion which was kept back was probably not large, for otherwise th...
αὐτοῦ omitted with אABD. 2. ἘΝΟΣΦΊΣΑΤΟ, _kept back, withheld_, bringing only a part and pretending it was the whole. The portion withheld can hardly have been large, or the disproportion between what...
Acts 5:1-11. ACCOUNT OF ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA The narrative with which this chapter commences is one which none but a veracious narrator would have inserted where it stands. The last chapter concludes...
ΈΝΟΣΦΊΣΑΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΝΟΣΦΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G3557) присваивать, тайно брать себе часть большего количества имущества, которое было доверено человеку. Используется в Септ. (Josh 7:1) по отношению...
BUT A CERTAIN MAN, &C.— In Psalms 110 where our Saviour is prophetically described in the person of a king advanced to the throne of divine majesty, glorious and triumphant, it is said, that _his peop...
8. IN THE UPPER ROOM. Acts 4:28, Acts 5:11. a. The Prayer Service. Acts 4:23-31. Acts 4:23 And being let go, they came to their own company,
See notes on verse 1...
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. AND KEPT BACK PART OF THE PRICE, HIS WIFE ALSO BEING PRIVY TO IT, AN...
30 The timid opposition of the Sanhedrin is in contrast to the boldness of those who proclaimed the evangel. God manifested Himself by miraculous interventions, and the powers of the kingdom abounded....
THE APOSTLES AGAIN IMPRISONED 1-16. The sin of Ananias and Sapphira was not keeping back part of the price, which they had a perfect right to do (Acts 5:4), but pretending that the money which they of...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 5 ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA, 5:1-11 V1 But there was a man whose name was Ananias. He and his wife, Sapphira, sold a building and some land. The bui...
V. (1, 2) A certain man named Ananias. — The name meets us again as belonging to the high priest in Acts 23:2, and was the Greek form of the Hebrew Hananiah. It had the same significance as John, or J...
AND KEPT BACK PART OF THE PRICE. — The mere act of keeping back would not in itself have been sinful. The money was his own, to give the whole or part (Acts 5:4). But the formal act, apparently reprod...
ἐνοσφίσατο : may merely mean from its derivation, to set apart νόσφι. But both in LXX and N.T. it is used in a bad sense of appropriating for one's own benefit, purloining, Expository Times, and notes...
LYING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT Acts 4:36-37; Acts 5:1-11 The Spirit of God is the source of generous and liberal giving. It is a poor substitute to set up bazaars, and fairs, and ice cream suppers. When th...
Here we have a terrible story. The account of Ananias and Sapphira stands in vivid contrast to that of Barnabas. The sin was dishonest dealing with the Holy Spirit. The judgment was swift and terrible...
Lying to the Holy Spirit Ananias and his wife, Sapphira, sold a piece of land, but decided to only lay a portion of the proceeds at the feet of the apostles. Ash notes that the same word translated "k...
And (a) 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. (a) Craftily took away....
By fraud kept part. [1] Ananias, and his wife Saphira, had make a promise or vow, to put into the common stock the price of what they had to sell. When they had sold the field, they resolved by mutual...
ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA 1-11. In that country the summers are very hot [and this was June], superinducing very quick and rapid putrefaction, necessitating a speedy interment of the dead, especially in a...
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 apostle...
First of all we see man in an entirely new place man risen from among the dead and ascending to heaven. The risen ascended man, Christ Jesus, is the new starting-point of the dealings of God. The firs...
Alas! evil shews itself there also (Chapter 5). If the mighty Spirit of God is there, the flesh also is there. There are some who wished to have the credit of devotedness which the Holy Ghost produces...
AND KEPT BACK PART OF THE PRICE,.... At which the possession was sold; he reserved it for his own use, after he had given out that he sold it for the service of the church: HIS WIFE ALSO BEING PRIVY...
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. Ver. 2. _And kept back part_] Interverted, ενοσφισατο, purloined...
_But a certain man named Ananias_ A professor of the gospel, but certainly not a true believer, for all _that_ truly _believed were of one heart and of one soul, Acts 4:32_. Probably he was not yet ba...
HIS WIFE-BEING PRIVY TO IT; secretly knowing and concurring in the design of keeping back a part of the price for which they sold the land, while they professed to bring the whole....
ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA. The sin and death of Ananias:...
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....
Where God is working, however, the opposition of Satan soon becomes apparent. The evil begins (as evil always does) in an underhand manner, but is quickly exposed by God. Ananias and Sapphira certainl...
AND HE KEPT BACK _PART_ OF THE PROCEEDS, HIS WIFE ALSO BEING AWARE _OF IT,_ AND BROUGHT A CERTAIN PART AND LAID _IT_ AT THE APOSTLES ' FEET. 1. There was nothing wrong with keeping part of the money....
and kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought. certain part, and laid it at the apostles' feet. 'KEPT BACK PART OF THE PRICE'-The phrase "kept back" means to "appropria...
1-11 The sin of Ananias and Sapphira was, that they were ambitious of being thought eminent disciples, when they were not true disciples. Hypocrites may deny themselves, may forego their worldly adva...
KEPT BACK PART OF THE PRICE, when they had vowed the whole to God and his service, which made it a robbing of God, whatsoever pretence they might possibly have of detaining some part for their own nec...
Acts 5:2 And G2532 back G3557 (G5668) of G575 proceeds G5092 his G846 wife G1135 also G2532 aware...
‘But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, and kept back part of the price, his wife also being associated with him in it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at...
_The Episode of Ananias and Sapphira,_ 1-11. Acts 5:1-2. BUT A CERTAIN MAN NAMED ANANIAS, WITH SAPPHIRA HIS WIFE, SOLD A POSSESSION, AND KEPT BACK PART OF THE PRICE. In striking contrast to the entire...
_The Inner Life of the Church, Acts 4:32 to Acts 5:11_. The characteristic feature is concord among the believers. The great topic of preaching among them is the Lord's resurrection. The favour they w...
KEPT BACK (ενοσφισατο). First aorist middle indicative of νοσφιζω, old verb from νοσφ, afar, apart, and so to set apart, to separate for oneself, but only here, verse Acts 5:3; Titus 2:10 in the N....
Acts 4:32-5 Ananias and Sapphira I. We have much need to lay to heart the lessons of this incident. Christ's Church has long since come to include so many false or unspiritual members, and to be so b...
CONTENTS: Sin and death of Ananias and Sapphira. The second persecution and answer of apostles to their persecutors. Warning of Gamaliel. Apostles beaten. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Ananias, Sapph...
Acts 5:3. _Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost._ These words not only indicate that Ananias was a minister of the word, but that he for once had yielded his heart to th...
BUT KEPT PART OF THE MONEY. It is important to see where the sin was. No one forced them to sell the property; and once sold, no one forced them to give the money; and in giving the money, no one requ...
_But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession._ ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA The word Ananias means “grace of God”; and the word Sapphira signifies just “a sapphire,” the famili...
_And kept back part of the price._ THE SIN OF PRETENCE AND ITS PUNISHMENT They desired to have all the credit the Church would give them for acting as generously as Barnabas did, and yet, while getti...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 5:1. ANANIAS.—Perhaps the same name as Ananiah (Nehemiah 3:23) or Hananiah (1 Chronicles 3:21; Jeremiah 28:1;
EXPOSITION ACTS 5:1 ANANIAS (Ἀνανίας) In Nehemiah 3:23 the Hebrew name היָנְנַעֲ (God covers or protects) is thus rendered in the LXX. But the name occurs nowhere else. The very common name היָנְנ...
Chapter 5, the book of Acts. At the end of the fourth chapter we have the second mention of the early pure communism that was practiced in the first church. Where those who had possessions sold them,...
1 Timothy 6:10; 2 Kings 5:21; 2 Peter 2:14; 2 Peter 2:15; Acts 4:34;...
Kept back [ε ν ο σ φ ι σ α τ ο]. Only here, ver. 3, and Titus 2:10, where it is rendered purloining. From nosfi, aloof, apart. The verb means to set apart for one's self; hence to appropriate wrongful...
And bringing a certain part — As if it had been the whole: perhaps saying it was so....