Acts 5:6-17

⁶The young men got up, and, winding the body in a sheet, carried it out and buried it.

⁷After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

⁸“Is it true,” Peter asked, addressing her, “that you sold your land for such a sum?” “Yes,” she answered, “we did.”

⁹Then Peter said, “How did you come to agree to provoke the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The footsteps of those who have buried your husband are at the door; and they will carry you out too.”

¹⁰Instantly Sapphira fell down at Peter's feet and expired. On coming in, the young men found her dead; so they carried her out and buried her by her husband's side.

¹¹The whole church and all who heard of these events were appalled.

¹²Many signs and wonders continued to occur among the people, through the instrumentality of the apostles, whose custom it was to meet all together in the Colonnade of Solomon;

¹³but of the rest no one ventured to join them. On the other hand, the people were full of their praise,

¹⁴and still larger numbers, both of men and women, as they became believers in the Lord, were added to their number.

¹⁵The consequence was that people would bring out their sick even into the streets, and lay them on mattresses and mats, in the hope that, as Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on someone of them.

¹⁶Besides this, the inhabitants of the towns around Jerusalem flocked into the city, bringing with them their sick and those who were troubled by foul spirits; and they were cured everyone.

¹⁷At this the high priest was roused to action, and he and all his supporters (who formed the party of the Sadducees), moved by jealousy,