And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard [these things] - that is, on those without the Christian circle, who, instead of disparaging the followers of the Lord Jesus, as they might otherwise have done on the discovery of such hypocrisy, were awed at the manifest presence of divinity among them, and the mysterious power of throwing off such corrupt matter which rested upon the young Church. [The tauta (G5023) at the end of this verse, though implied, is evidently an addition to the genuine text.]