Sold (επωλησεν). Aorist active indicative again, for a single case.

CHAPTER 5

But a certain man. In the previous chapter, the historian had given an account of the eminent liberality and sincerity of…

A certain man named Ananias.—We encounter the name again as belonging to the high priest in Acts 23:2; it was the Greek form of th…

The details of the conspiracy are concisely stated. A certain Christian man named Ananias (meaning “God is gracious” in Hebrew) and his wife, Sapph…

The things which Luke has reported until now showed that the company, which was gathered together under the name of Christ, was rather a company of…

But a certain man named Ananias
A name common among the Jews, the same with Hananiah, (Jeremiah 28:1) ([…

The sin of Ananias and Sapphira was that they were ambitious to be thought eminent disciples when they were not true disciples. Hypocrites may deny…