ACTS 5:4-5 to. pra/gma tou/to … pesw,n In order to make the account in ver. Acts 5:4 more vivid, codex Bezae reads poih/sai ponhro.n tou/to, and to heighten the dramatic effect...
Verse Acts 5:5. _FELL DOWN, AND GAVE UP THE GHOST_] πεσων εξεψυξε, _Falling down, he expired, breathed his last_: "Gave up the ghost" is a very improper translation here. Genesis 25:8, and Matthew 27...
AND ANANIAS, HEARING THESE WORDS ... - Seeing that his guilt was known, and being charged with the enormous crime of attempting to deceive God. He had not expected to be thus exposed; and it is clear...
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)...
AND. Now, or But. WORDS. App-121. GAVE UP THO GHOST. expired. Only here, Acts 5:10; Acts 12:23. A medical word. Compare _ekpneo._ Mark 15:37. GREAT FEAR. Compare "great grace", "great power", in...
_And Ananias hearing these words fell down_ Smitten through the power of that Spirit whom he had intended to deceive. Here is no description of a death from apoplexy or mental excitement under the reb...
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...
ταῦτα omitted with אABD. So also _Vulg_. and other versions. 5. ἈΚΟΎΩΝ. The present tense seems to indicate the immediate result of the Apostle’s words, spoken in the power of the Spirit with which h...
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...
ΆΚΟΎΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать. Temp. _part._ указывает на одновременное действие, ΠΕΣΏΝ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΠΊΠΤΩ (G4098) падать. ΈΞΈΨΥΞΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΚΨΎΧΩ...
DISCOURSE: 1752 ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA Acts 5:3. 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? Whiles it remained,...
AND ANANIAS HEARING THESE WORDS, &C.— This severity was not only righteous, considering that complication of vain glory and covetousness, of fraud and impiety, which the action contained; but was wise...
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,
5. The exposure of Ananias was very surprising, but neither the audience, nor perhaps Peter, was prepared by it for the event which immediately followed. (5) "_And Ananias, hearing these words, fell d...
And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. AND ANANIAS HEARING THESE WORDS FELL DOWN, AND GAVE UP THE GHOST: AND GREA...
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...
ANANIAS HEARING THESE WORDS FELL DOWN. — It is to be noted that St. Peter’s words, while they press home the intensity of the guilt, do not contain any formal sentence. In such a case we may rightly t...
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...
Ananias... fell down and gave up the ghost. St. Augustine says,[3] this severe judgment was to strike a terror of such dissembling fraudulent dealings into the new Church. It was also to shew that St....
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...
5._When Ananias heard these things. _The death of Ananias doth, indeed, declare and prove the force of the word, which Paul cloth highly extol; to wit, that it is the savor of death unto death to thos...
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 ANANIAS HEARING THESE WORDS,.... Of Peter's; by which he found his sin was detected, and by which he was convicted of it: and which set forth the evil nature of it, with its aggravated circumstanc...
And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. Ver. 5. _Fell down, and gave up_] So did Nightingal, parson of Crondal by Ca...
_And Ananias, hearing these words_ While the sound of them was yet in his ears; _fell down and gave up the ghost_ Εξεψυξε, _expired._ It does not appear whether Peter designed or expected this event t...
GIVE UP THE GHOST; instantly died....
AND ANANIAS, HEARING THESE WORDS, FELL DOWN, AND GAVE UP THE GHOST; AND GREAT FEAR CAME ON ALL THEM THAT HEARD THESE THINGS....
ANANIAS AND SAPPHIRA. The sin and death of Ananias:...
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...
THEN ANANIAS, HEARING THESE WORDS, FELL DOWN AND BREATHED HIS LAST. SO GREAT FEAR CAME UPON ALL THOSE WHO HEARD THESE THINGS. 1. Ananias - heard the words against him, fell down, and took his last br...
And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost: and great fear came upon all that heard it. 'FELL DOWN AND GAVE UP THE GHOST'-'fell down dead' (Wey); 'collapsed and died' (Phi); 'fel...
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...
FELL DOWN AND GAVE UP THE GHOST; expired and died. Some instances of God's extraordinary judgments upon sinners were in the beginning of the Jewish church; as upon the man that gathered sticks on the...
5. The exposure of Ananias was very surprising, but neither the audience, nor perhaps Peter, was prepared by it for the event which immediately followed. (5) " And Ananias, hearing these words, fell d...
Acts 5:5 Then G1161 Ananias G367 hearing G191 (G5723) these G5128 words G3056 down G4098 (G5631) last...
‘And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the life within him: and great fear came on all who heard it.' The recognition that he had been exposed was too much for Ananias. His heart gave...
Acts 5:5. AND ANANIAS HEARING THESE WORDS FELL DOWN, AND GAVE UP THE GHOST. In considering the questions which cluster round this terrible death scene, we must put aside all such interpretations which...
_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...
HEARING (ακουων). Present active participle of ακουω, while hearing.FELL DOWN (πεσων). Second aorist active participle of πιπτω, fell all of a sudden while listening.GAVE UP THE GHOST (εξεψυξεν)...
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...
HE FELL DOWN DEAD. It was not Peter, but the Holy Spirit who struck this man dead. The punishment seems more drastic than necessary, yet Satan was striking at the messianic community through this _lie...
_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...
_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 Chronicles 13:12; 1 Chronicles 15:13; 1 Corinthians 4:21; 1 Samuel 6:19;...
Gave up the ghost [ε ξ ε ψ υ ξ ε]. Used by Luke only. A rare word, occurring in the Septuagint, and in medical writers. See Ezekiel 21:7, "Every spirit shall faint." See, also, on failing, Luke 21:26....
And Ananias fell down and expired — And this severity was not only just, considering that complication of vain glory, covetousness, fraud, and impiety, which this action contained: but it was also wis...
Observe here, 1. The justice of the punishment inflicted upon Ananias for his sin; he is struck dead upon the spot for his sacrilege, covetousness, hypocrisy and lying: Doubtless it was. very heinous...