Acts 5:7

Acts 5:7. And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife. The words ‘about the space of three hours' form a parenthesis. Then ‘it came to pass some three hours had now elapsed when his wife.' She was puzzled at the long absence of her husband, who had left her to present his rich gift formally to the Church, and she was anxious, no doubt, to learn with what grateful words of acceptance the apostles had received it.

Not knowing what was done. No one, it has been suggested, who had seen her, as yet had had the courage to tell her of her husband's doom.

Came in. A second assembly of the Church might have been sitting, if the Jewish hours of prayer were rigidly attended to; but it is more likely that the apostles, and many with them, remained in the same house during the whole interval of the three hours' absence of the young men who were charged with carrying out the burial details.