ACTS CHAPTER 5 Acts 5:1-11 Ananias and Sapphira, profanely tempting the Holy Ghost with a lie, at Peter's rebuke fall down dead, Acts 5:12-16 The apostles work many miracles, to the great increase of the faith. Acts 5:17-28 They are all imprisoned, but released by an angel, and sent to preach openly in the temple: being brought before the council, Acts 5:29-32 they support their witness with great freedom. Acts 5:33-40 The council are restrained from killing them by the advice of Gamaliel, but beat and dismiss them with a charge not to speak in the name of Jesus. Acts 5:41-42 They rejoice in their sufferings, and cease not to preach Christ both in public and private. A dreadful instance of God's indignation against hypocrisy and sacrilege, which we have an infallible testimony of; which is the more remarkable, because such sins escape punishment from men, either as not known, or not disliked; yet the damnation of such as are guilty of them slumbereth not, 2 Peter 2:3, it being the glory of God to search out matters further than men can, or list to do. A possession; an estate, house, or farm.
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Acts 5:1
1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,