appropriated some of the purchase-money with the connivance of his wife; he only brought part of it to lay before the feet of the apostles.
sold a farm belonging to him and brought the money, which he placed before the feet of the apostles.
"Ananias," said Peter, "why has Satan filled your heart and made you cheat the holy Spirit by appropriating some of the money paid for the land?
(Not that he cared for the poor; he said this because he was a thief, and because he carried the money-box and pilfered what was put in.)
Besides, all they do is done to catch the notice of men; they make their phylacteries broad, they wear large tassels,
For love of money is the root of all mischief; it is by aspiring to be rich that certain individuals have gone astray from the faith and found themselves pierced with many a pang of remorse.
never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,
The believers all kept together; they shared all they had with one another,
But a man called Ananias, who with his wife Sapphira had sold some property,
"Tell me," said Peter, "did you only sell the land for such and such a sum?" "Yes," she said, "that was all we sold it for."