Hearing (ακουων). Present active participle of ακουω, while hearing.

Fell down (πεσων). Second aorist acti…

Ananias hearing these words. Seeing that his guilt was known, and being charged with the enormous crime of attempting to deceive God, he h…

Ananias hearing these words fell down. It is to be noted that St. Peter’s words, while they press home the intensity of t…

The psychological explanations of Ananias’s sudden death attribute his fatal collapse to the shock and shame of being found out. The verb Luke uses…

When Ananias heard these things. The death of Ananias does, indeed, declare and prove the force of the word, which Paul highly extols; nam…

And Ananias hearing these words
Of Peter's; by which he found his sin was detected, and by which he was convicted of…

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…