Acts 5:1-10

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5 But there was a man named Ananias (with his wife Sapphira) who sold some property ² and brought only part of the money, claiming it was the full price. (His wife had agreed to this deception.)

³ But Peter said, “Ananias, Satan has filled your heart. When you claimed this was the full price, you were lying to the Holy Spirit. ⁴ The property was yours to sell or not, as you wished. And after selling it, it was yours to decide how much to give. How could you do a thing like this? You weren’t lying to us, but to God.”

⁵ As soon as Ananias heard these words, he fell to the floor, dead! Everyone was terrified, ⁶ and the younger men covered him with a sheet and took him out and buried him.

⁷ About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. ⁸ Peter asked her, “Did you people sell your land for such and such a price?”

“Yes,” she replied, “we did.”

⁹ And Peter said, “How could you and your husband even think of doing a thing like this—conspiring together to test the Spirit of God’s ability to know what is going on?^[a] Just outside that door are the young men who buried your husband, and they will carry you out too.”

¹⁰ Instantly she fell to the floor, dead, and the young men came in and, seeing that she was dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband.