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Kisah Para Rasul 5:8

Kata Petrus kepadanya: "Katakanlah kepadaku, dengan harga sekiankah tanah itu kamu jual?" Jawab perempuan itu: "Betul sekian."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ananias;   Communism;   Death;   Falsehood;   Hypocrisy;   Land;   Peter;   Sapphira;   Vows;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Home;   Lying, Examples of;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Truth-Falsehood;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Covetousness;   Hypocrites;   Judgments;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ananias;   Discerning of Spirits;   Peter;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Apostle;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Burial;   Collection;   Discipline;   Lie, Lying;   Money;   Punishment;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Covetousness;   Judgments of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Sapphira;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Discerning of Spirits;   Sapphira;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Death;   Holy;   Hypocrisy;   Unity;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Mark, Gospel According to;   Medicine;   Peter;   Priest;   Sadducees;   Scribes;   Spiritual Gifts;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discipline;   Peter;   Pre-Eminence ;   Timothy and Titus Epistles to;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ananias ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ananias;   Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Anani'as;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ananias (1);   Answer;   Burial;   Covetousness;   Dead;   Galatians, Epistle to the;   Lie;   Papyrus;   Peter, Simon;   Peter, the First Epistle of;   Sapphira;   Text and Manuscripts of the New Testament;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ananias;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Burial;   Didascalia;  

Devotionals:

- Chip Shots from the Ruff of Life - Devotion for April 12;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kata Petrus kepadanya: "Katakanlah kepadaku, dengan harga sekiankah tanah itu kamu jual?" Jawab perempuan itu: "Betul sekian."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka kata Petrus kepadanya, "Katakanlah kepadaku, sungguhkah tanah itu kamu sudah jual dengan sekian harganya?" Maka kata perempuan itu, "Sungguh sekian itulah harganya."

Contextual Overview

1 But a certayne man, named Ananias, with Saphyra his wyfe, solde a possession, 2 And kept away part of the price, his wyfe also beyng of counsell, and brought a certayne part, and layde it downe at the Apostles feete. 3 But Peter sayde: Ananias, howe is it, that Satan hath fylled thyne heart, that thou shouldest lye vnto the holy ghost, and kepe away part of the price of the lande? 4 Whyles it remayned, was it not thyne owne? And after it was solde, was it not in thyne owne power? Why haste thou conceaued this thyng in thyne heart? Thou hast not lyed vnto men, but vnto God. 5 When Ananias hearde these wordes, he fell downe, and gaue vp the ghost. And great feare came on all them that hearde these thynges. 6 And the young rose vp, and put hym a part, and caryed hym out, and buryed hym. 7 And it came to passe, that as it were about the space of three houres after, his wyfe came in, ignoraunt of that which was done. 8 And Peter sayde vnto her: Tell me, Solde ye not the lande for so much? And she sayde: Yea, for so much. 9 Then Peter sayde vnto her: Why haue ye agreed together, to tempt the spirite of the Lorde? Beholde, the feete of the which haue buried thy husbande, are at the doore, and shall cary thee out. 10 Then fell she downe strayghtway at his feete, and yelded vp the ghost. And the young men came in, and founde her dead, and caryed her out, and buryed her by her husbande.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Job 31:33 - covered Ecclesiastes 8:3 - stand

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Peter answered unto her,.... Who might be inquiring for her husband; though such a way of speaking was common with the Jews, when nothing goes before to which the answer is made; of which there are frequent instances in the sacred writings:

tell me whether ye sold the land for so much; naming the sum of money which Ananias had brought; though the historian does not mention it. The Vulgate Latin and Ethiopic versions read, "tell me, O woman", c. not calling her by her name, as he did her husband, Acts 5:3

yea, she said for so much just that sum, and no more.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For so much - That is, for the sum which Ananias had presented. This was true, that this sum had been received for it; but it was also true that a larger sum had been received. It is as really a falsehood to deceive in this manner, as it would have been to have affirmed that they received much “more” than they actually did for the land. Falsehood consists in making an erroneous representation of a thing in any way for the purpose of deceiving. And “this” species is much more common than an open and bold lie, affirming what is in no sense true.


 
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