Kept back (ενοσφισατο). First aorist middle indicative of νοσφιζω, old verb from νοσφ, afar, apart, and so to set apart, to separa…

And kept back. The word here used means, properly, to separate, to part; and then it means to separate surreptitious…

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…

And kept back part of the price
At which the possession was sold; he reserved it for his own use, after he had given…

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…