Acts 5

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Acts 5 shows the young church at its most fearful and its most fearless. Ananias and Sapphira sell a field, secretly keep part of the price, and present the rest as the whole; Peter names the lie as a lie to God, and each falls dead. Signs and wonders multiply, the sick are laid in the streets for Peter's shadow, and the Sadducees jail the apostles. An angel frees them by night and sends them back to preach. Before the Sanhedrin Peter says, "We must obey God rather than men." Gamaliel counsels patience: if this is from God you cannot stop it. The apostles are flogged, released, and go on teaching daily, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer for the Name.

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Acts 5 opens with a lie and ends with a song. A couple named Ananias and Sapphira have watched Barnabas sell a field and lay the whole price at the apostles' feet, and they want the same admiration at a lower cost, so they sell a field, keep back part of the money, and present the rest as everything. Nobody made them sell it, Peter says; the lie is the thing, and it was told not to men but to God. Ananias drops dead. Three hours later his wife, given every chance to tell the truth, repeats the lie and dies too, and Luke reports, without softening it, that great fear came over the whole church. Then the chapter swings the other way. Signs and wonders, crowds carrying their sick into the streets so that even Peter's shadow might touch them, more believers every day, and the temple authorities so jealous that they lock the apostles up. An angel lets them out in the night and tells them to go back to the temple and keep preaching, which they do, so that when the council sends for its prisoners, the jail is locked, guarded, and empty, and the prisoners are teaching in the courtyard. Hauled before the Sanhedrin and told they had been ordered to stop, Peter gives the answer the church has kept ever since: we must obey God rather than men. The council would have killed them, but the great teacher Gamaliel talks them down; if this is human it will collapse on its own, and if it is from God you will only find yourselves fighting him. So they flog the apostles and let them go, and the apostles walk out rejoicing that they were considered worthy to be shamed for the Name, and go straight back to teaching.

핵심 본문

Acts 5:1-11 Acts 5:17-26 Acts 5:27-32 Acts 5:33-39 Acts 5:40-42 Acts 4:32-37

Historical and literary context

Luke's account of the Jerusalem church in the early 30s follows directly on the sharing of goods in chapter 4, where Barnabas sold a field and laid the money at the apostles' feet, which makes the deceit of Ananias and Sapphira a counterfeit of that generosity. The Sadducees, who controlled the temple and denied resurrection, had most to lose from preaching that Jesus was raised. Solomon's Colonnade was the covered walk on the east side of the temple courts. Gamaliel was the leading Pharisee teacher of his generation and, according to Acts 22, Paul's own teacher; the risings of Theudas and Judas the Galilean were recent memories of failed messianic movements. Flogging was the thirty-nine lashes of synagogue discipline.

How the chapter unfolds

Verses 1 to 11 tell the deaths of Ananias and Sapphira and the fear that followed. Verses 12 to 16 summarize the signs, the growing numbers, and the healings, including Peter's shadow. Verses 17 to 26 narrate the arrest, the angel's release, the apostles back in the temple at dawn, and the officers' confusion. Verses 27 to 32 are the interrogation and Peter's answer, with its compact gospel: the God of our fathers raised Jesus whom you killed, exalted him as Prince and Savior, and gives repentance and forgiveness. Verses 33 to 39 are Gamaliel's intervention. Verses 40 to 42 are the flogging, the rejoicing, and the daily teaching.

Why this chapter matters

"We must obey God rather than men" has been the charter of Christian conscience against unjust authority from the martyrs to the confessing church, and Gamaliel's counsel, "if it is from God, you will not be able to stop them," has been quoted by every side in every religious dispute since. The story of Ananias and Sapphira is the church's standing warning about hypocrisy in giving and about lying to the Spirit, and the apostles' joy at being "counted worthy of suffering disgrace for the Name" set the pattern for how the church would understand persecution. Peter's shadow is the first hint of the healing power that would later attach to relics.

Interpretive tension to watch

The deaths of Ananias and Sapphira trouble readers who compare them with Jesus' patience toward sinners; whether Luke presents them as divine judgment, as a shock that revealed the seriousness of the Spirit's presence, or as a story about the founding moment of a community, is debated, and the text does not say that Peter willed their deaths. Gamaliel's speech mentions Theudas before Judas the Galilean, while Josephus places Theudas a decade after this scene, a chronological problem with several proposed solutions. The chapter's enthusiasm for signs and wonders, including a healing shadow, sits uneasily with some traditions' caution about the miraculous.

이 장을 위한 질문

Ananias and Sapphira were free to keep their money; their sin was pretending. Why does the chapter treat a lie about generosity as a lie to God?
"We must obey God rather than men." How do you tell the difference between that and simply doing what you want?
Gamaliel says time will show whether a movement is from God. Is that wisdom, or a way of avoiding a decision?

Study with context

Use this as a chapter guide, then press deeper into the text itself. The goal is to slow down observation, notice structure, and ask better questions before jumping to conclusions.

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1 A certayne man named Ananias with Saphira his wyfe solde a possession 2 and kepte awaye parte of the pryce (his wyfe also beynge of counsell) and brought a certayne parte and layde it doune at the Apostles fete. 3 Then sayde Peter: Ananias how is it that Satan hath filled thyne hert that thou shuldest lye vnto the holy goost and kepe awaye parte of the pryce of the lyvelod: 4 Pertayned it not vnto the only and after it was solde was not the pryce in thyne awne power? How is it that thou hast conceaved this thinge in thyne herte? Thou hast not lyed vnto men but vnto God. 5 When Ananias herde these wordes. he fell doune and gave vp the goost. And great feare came on all the that these thinges hearde. 6 And the yonge men roose vp and put him a parte and caryed him out and buryed him. 7 And it fortuned as it were aboute the space of .iii. houres after that his wyfe came in ignoraunt of that which was done. 8 And Peter sayde vnto her: Tell me gave ye the londe for so moche? And she sayde: ye for so moche 9 Then Peter sayde vnto her: why have ye agreed to gether to tept the sprete of the Lorde? Beholde the fete of them which have buryed thy husbande are at the dore and shall cary the out. 10 Then she fell doune strayght waye at his fete and yelded vp the goost. And the yonge men came in and founde her ded and caryed her out and buryed her by her husbande. 11 And great feare came on all the congregacion and on as many as hearde it. 12 By the hondes of the Apostles were many signes and wondres shewed amonge the people. And they were all together with one acorde in Salomons porche. 13 And of other durst no man ioyne him selfe to them: neverthelater the people magnyfied them. 14 The noumbre of them that beleved in the Lorde bothe of men and wemen grewe moare and moare: 15 in so moche that they brought the sicke into the strettes and layde them on beddes and palettes that at the lest waye the shadowe of Peter when he came by myght shadowe some of them. 16 There came also a multitude out of the cities roud about vnto Ierusalem bringynge sicke folkes and them which were vexed with vnclene spretes. And they were healed every one. 17 Then the chefe preste rose vp and all they that were with him (which is the secte of the Saduces) and were full of indignacion 18 and layde hondes on the Apostles and put them in the comen preson. 19 But the angell of the Lorde by nyght openned the preson dores and brought them forthe and sayde: 20 goo steppe forthe and speake in the temple to the people all the wordes of this lyfe. 21 When they hearde that they entred into the temple erly in the morninge and taught. The chefe prest came and they that were with him and called a counsell to gedder and all the elders of the chyldren of Israel and sent to the preson to fet them. 22 When the ministres came and founde them not in the preson they returned and tolde 23 sayinge: the preson founde we shut as sure as was possible and the kepers stondynge with out before the dores. But when we had opened we founde no man with in. 24 When the chefe prest of all and the ruler of the temple and the hye prestes hearde these thinges they douted of them whervnto this wolde growe. 25 Then came one and shewed them: beholde the men that ye put in preson stonde in the temple and teache the people. 26 Then went the ruler of the temple with ministers and brought the with out violence. For they feared the people lest they shuld have bene stoned. 27 And when they had brought them they set them before the counsell. And the chefe preste axed them 28 sayinge: dyd not we straytely commaunde you that ye shuld not teache in this name? And beholde ye have filled Ierusalem with youre doctrine and ye intende to brynge this mans bloud vpon vs. 29 Peter and the other Apostles answered and sayde: We ought moare to obey God then men. 30 The God of oure fathers raysed vp Iesus whom ye slewe and hanged on tre. 31 Him hath god lifte vp with his right hand to be a ruler and a savioure for to geve repentaunce to Israell and forgevenes of synnes. 32 And we are his recordes concernynge these thinges and also the holy goost whom God hath geve to them that obey him. 33 When they hearde that they clave asunder: and sought meanes to slee them. 34 Then stode ther vp one in the counsell a Pharisey named Gamaliel a doctoure of lawe had in auctorite amonge all the people and commaunded to put the Apostles a syde a lytell space 35 and sayde vnto them: Men of Israel take hede to youre selves what ye entende to do as touchinge these men. 36 Before these dayes rose vp one Theudas bostinge him selfe to whom resorted a nombre of men about a foure hondred which was slayn and they all which beleved him were scatred a broode and brought to nought. 37 After this man arose ther vp one Iudas of Galile in the tyme when tribute began and drewe awaye moche people after him. He also perisshed: and all even as many as harkened to him are scattered a brood. 38 And now I saye vnto you: refrayne youre selves from these men let them alone. For yf the consell or this worke be of men it will come to nought. 39 But and yf it be of God ye can not destroye it lest haply ye be founde to stryve agaynst God. 40 And to him they agreed and called the Apostles and bet them and commaunded that they shuld not speake in the name of Iesu and let them goo. 41 And they departed from the counsell reioysynge that they were counted worthy to soffre rebuke for his name. 42 And dayly in the temple and in every housse they ceased not teachinge and preachinge Iesus Christ.

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