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ACTS CHAPTER 5
Act_5:1-11 Ananias and Sapphira, profanely tempting the Holy
Ghost with a lie, at Peter’s rebuke fall down dead,
Act_5:12-16 The apostles work many miracles, to the great increase
of the faith.
Act_5:17-28 They are all imprisoned, but released by an angel, and
sent to preach openly in the temple: being brought
before the council,
Act_5:29-32 they support their witness with great freedom.
Act_5:33-40 The council are restrained from killing them by the
advice of Gamaliel, but beat and dismiss them with a
charge not to speak in the name of Jesus.
Act_5:41-42 They rejoice in their sufferings, and cease not to
preach Christ both in public and private.
A dreadful instance of God’s indignation against hypocrisy and sacrilege, which we have an infallible testimony of; which is the more remarkable, because such sins escape punishment from men, either as not known, or not disliked; yet the damnation of such as are guilty of them slumbereth not, 2Pe_2:3, it being the glory of God to search out matters further than men can, or list to do.
A possession; an estate, house, or farm.