Verse 4
Acts 5:4
World English Bible
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While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God (Elohim).”
Original Language Text
greek
οὐχὶ μένον σοὶ ἔμενεν καὶ πραθὲν ἐν τῇ σῇ ἐξουσίᾳ ὑπῆρχεν; τί ὅτι ἔθου ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦτο; οὐκ ἐψεύσω ἀνθρώποις ἀλλὰ τῷ θεῷ.
English Translation
Did it not remain for you, and was it not under your control? Why then have you set this thing in your heart? I did not lie to men but to God.
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Chapter 5 Context
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But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession,
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and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part, and la...
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But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep bac...
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While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it...
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Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.
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The young men arose and wrapped him up, and they carried him out and buried him.
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About three hours later, his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.
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Peter answered her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.”
She said, “Yes, for so much.”
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But Peter asked her, “How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Behol...
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She fell down immediately at his feet, and died. The young men came in and found her dead, and they...
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Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.
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By the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. They were all with o...
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None of the rest dared to join them, however the people honored them.
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More believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women.
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They even carried out the sick into the streets, and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that as Pe...
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The multitude also came together from the cities around Jerusalem, bringing sick people, and those w...
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But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), a...
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and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody.
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But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,
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“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”
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When they heard this, they entered into the temple about daybreak, and taught. But the high priest c...
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But the officers who came didn’t find them in the prison. They returned and reported,
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“We found the prison shut and locked, and the guards standing before the doors, but when we opened t...
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Now when the high priest, the captain of the temple, and the chief priests heard these words, they w...
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One came and told them, “Behold, the men whom you put in prison are in the temple, standing and teac...
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Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid tha...
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When they had brought them, they set them before the council. The high priest questioned them,
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saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem...
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But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God (Elohim) rather than men.
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The God (Elohim) of our fathers raised up Yashua (Jesus), whom you killed, hanging him on a tree.
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God (Elohim) exalted him with his right hand to be a Prince and a Savior, to give repentance to Isra...
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We are His witnesses of these things; and so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God (Elohim) has given to...
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But they, when they heard this, were cut to the heart, and were determined to kill them.
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But one stood up in the council, a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, honored by all the...
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He said to them, “You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.
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For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, a...
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After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people af...
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Now I tell you, withdraw from these men, and leave them alone. For if this counsel or this work is o...
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But if it is of God (Elohim), you will not be able to overthrow it, and you would be found even to b...
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They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the...
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They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to...
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Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Yashua (Jesus), the...
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