Acts 5:3-20

³But Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill thy heart that thou shouldst lie to the Holy Spirit, and keep back part of the price of the land?

⁴While it remained, was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? Why didst thou conceive this thing in thy heart? Thou didst not lie to men, but to God.

⁵And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down, and expired. And great fear came on all that heard of it.

⁶And the young men arose, and wrapt him up, and carried him out, and buried him.

⁷And it was about the space of three hours after, when his wife, not knowing what had happened, came in.

⁸Peter said to her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much. And she said, Yes, for so much.

⁹And Peter said to her, Why is it that ye agreed together to try the Spirit of the Lord? Lo! the feet of those who have buried thy husband are at the door, and they will carry thee out.

¹⁰And she fell down immediately at his feet, and expired; and the young men, when they came in, found her dead, and carried her out, and buried her by her husband.

¹¹And great fear came upon all the church, and upon all that heard of these things.

¹²And many signs and wonders were wrought among the people by the hands of the apostles; and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.

¹³But of the rest no one dared to join himself to them. But the people highly honored them;

¹⁴and more and more were believers added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women;

¹⁵so that in the streets they brought out the sick, and laid them on beds and couches, in order that at least the shadow of Peter, as he passed, might overshadow some of them.

¹⁶The multitude also belonging to the cities around came together to Jerusalem bringing the sick, and those plagued by unclean spirits; and they were all healed.

¹⁷But the high-priest and all that were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, rose up and were filled with indignation,

¹⁸and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in the public prison.

¹⁹But an angel of the Lord in the night opened the prison-doors, and brought them forth and said,

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