John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"and they sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all, according as any man had need." — Acts 2:45 (ASV)
And sold their possessions and goods .
&c.] Their houses and lands, their fields and vineyards, their goods, moveable or immoveable:
and parted them to all men ;
that were of their society, not to others:
as every man had need :
the rich sold their estates, and divided them among the poor, or gave them such a portion thereof as their present exigencies required. This was done by Jews, and by Jews only; who, when they embraced the Gospel of Christ, were informed that the destruction of their city, and nation, was at hand; and therefore they sold their estates before hand, and put them to this use; which was necessary to be done, both for the support of the Gospel in Judea, and for the carrying and spreading of it among the Gentiles:
but is not to be drawn into a precedent, or an example in after times; nor is ever any such thing proposed to the Christian churches, or exhorted to by any of the apostles.