Acts 5:4-11

⁴While you had the land, didn't it belong to you? And after you sold it, didn't you still have control over what you did with the money? Why did you decide to do this? You haven't lied to human beings, but to God!”

⁵Hearing these words, Ananias fell down and died. Everyone who heard what happened was terrified.

⁶Some of the young men got up and wrapped him in a shroud. Then they carried him out and buried him.

⁷About three hours later his wife arrived, not knowing what had happened.

⁸Peter asked her, “Tell me, did you sell the land for this price?” “Yes, that was the price,” she replied.

⁹Then Peter told her, “How could you agree together to swindle the Spirit of the Lord? Look, those who buried your husband are just returning, and they'll carry you out too!”

¹⁰Immediately she fell down dead at his feet. The young men came back in and found her dead, so they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

¹¹Great fear spread through the whole church, as well as among everyone who heard what had happened.