Acts 5:1

Plain English Version

There was a man called Ananias, and his wife was called Safira. They sold some land too,

Cross References

John 6:37

You see, my father gives me some people. They will all come to me, and I will look after them. I will never send them away.

Acts 4:37

Barnabas sold his farm land, then he gave the money to Jesus’s special workers, for them to share it with the other Christians.

Acts 5:2

but they kept some of the money for themselves. Ananias only gave some of it to Peter and to Jesus’s other special workers, for them to share it with the other Christians. Ananias lied to them. He said, “This is all the money we got for our land.” His wife knew what he was doing, and she agreed to it.

2 Timothy 2:20

Let me use another picture story. In a big house there are lots of things that people use all the time. Some of those things are really special, like gold bowls and silver spoons, and people use those things for good clean jobs. But for dirty jobs, they use pots made from the ground, or from wood.