Acts 5:3 BSB — MannaFest

Acts 5:3

Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

KJV

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

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Commentary

5 voices

Jerome

LETTER 130.14 (420)

For having made a vow they offered their money to God as if it were their own and not his to whom they had vowed it; and keeping back for their own use a part of that which belonged to another, through fear of famine which true faith never fears, they drew down on themselves suddenly the avenging stroke, which was meant not in cruelty toward them but as a warning to others. In fact, the apostle Peter by no means called down death upon them, as Porphyry foolishly says.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

But Peter said, Ananias,.... Peter, by divine revelation, or by a spirit of discerning, such as Elisha had, who knew what his servant Gehazi had done, knowing what a reserve Ananias had made, calls him by his name, and says to him, why hath Satan filled thine heart? or emboldened thee, given thee so much spirit and courage to act in such an impudent and audacious manner; so the phrase is used in Est 7:5 see the Septuagint there, and often in Talmudic writings. "Says R.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

To lie to the Holy Ghost - Who is in us. And to keep back - Here was the first instance of it. This was the first attempt to bring propriety of goods into the Christian Church.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Satan is a lying spirit; he was so in the mouth of Ahab's prophets, and so he was in the mouth of Ananias, and by this made it appear that he filled his heart. The sin itself: He lied to the Holy Ghost; a sin of such a heinous nature that he could not have been guilty of it if Satan had not filled his heart.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

But Peter said ... - Peter could have known this only by “revelation.” It was the manifest design of Ananias to deceive; nor was there any way of detecting him but by its being revealed to him by the Spirit of God. As it was an instance of enormous wickedness, and as it was very important to detect and punish the crime, it was made known to Peter directly by God. Why hath Satan - Great deeds of wickedness in the Scripture are traced to the influence of Satan. Compare Luk 23:3; Joh 13:

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Original language & word study

26 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Εἶπεν	Eipen	Said	G2036 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Πέτρος·	Petros	Peter;	G4074 →
Ἁνανία,	Hanania	Ananias,	G367 →
διὰ	dia	because of	G1223 →
τί	ti	why	G5101 →
ἐπλήρωσεν	eplērōsen	has filled	G4137 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
σατανᾶς	satanas	Satan	G4567 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
καρδίαν	kardian	heart	G2588 →
σου	sou	of you	G4771 →
ψεύσασθαί	pseusasthai	to lie to	G5574 →
σε	se	[for] you	G4771 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
πνεῦμα	pneuma	Spirit	G4151 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
ἅγιον	hagion	Holy	G40 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
νοσφίσασθαι	nosphisasthai	to keep back	G3557 →
ἀπὸ	apo	from	G575 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
τιμῆς	timēs	proceeds	G5092 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
χωρίου;	chōriou	land?	G5564 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.
leads to
- Ephesians 6:11
  Put on the full armor of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes.
- James 4:7
  Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- Ephesians 4:27
  and do not give the devil a foothold.
- Job 2:2
  “Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
- 1 Peter 1:13
  Therefore prepare your minds for action. Be sober-minded. Set your hope fully on the grace to be given you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Through
Jeremiah 23:24
“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
leads to
- Proverbs 15:3
  The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.
- Psalms 139:7
  Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
- Psalms 90:8
  You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.