Acts 5:1-21

¹Now a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession

²and kept back part of the price for himself, his wife also being party to it; bringing a certain part he placed it at the Apostles' feet.

³So Peter said: “Ananias, on what basis has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the price of the land?

⁴While it remained unsold was it not yours, and once sold was it not in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You did not lie to men but to God.”

⁵Well upon hearing these words Ananias fell down and expired! (Great fear came on all who heard these things.)

⁶So the young men got up and wrapped him, and carrying him out they buried him.

⁷Now after an interval of some three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

⁸So Peter addressed her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” So she said, “Yes, for so much.”

⁹Peter said to her: “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look, the feet of those who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!”

¹⁰So she immediately fell down at his feet and expired! So upon entering the young men found her dead, and carrying her out they buried her beside her husband.

¹¹So great fear came on the whole assembly and on all who heard these things.

¹²Now many signs and wonders were being performed among the people by the hands of the Apostles; and they were all in Solomon's Porch with one purpose.

¹³None of the rest dared to join them, but the people were magnifying them.

¹⁴Believers were increasingly added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

¹⁵to the point that they kept carrying the sick into the streets, placing them on cots and pallets, so that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

¹⁶Further, the multitude from the surrounding cities also kept coming into Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

¹⁷Then the high priest rose up, and all those with him (being the sect of the Sadducees); they were filled with jealousy

¹⁸and laid their hands on the Apostles and put them in the common prison.

¹⁹But, during the night an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the prison, and leading them out he said,

²⁰“Go, stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.”

²¹So upon hearing it they entered the temple about daybreak and started to teach. Then the high priest and those with him arrived and convened the Sanhedrin, even all the council of elders of the sons of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.