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Mga Gawa 4:35
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
at: Acts 3:6, Acts 5:2, Acts 6:1-6, 2 Corinthians 8:20, 2 Corinthians 8:21
distribution: Acts 2:45, Acts 6:1
Reciprocal: Leviticus 25:6 - General 2 Chronicles 35:8 - his princes Nehemiah 13:13 - to distribute Psalms 112:9 - dispersed Luke 12:33 - Sell Luke 14:13 - call Luke 19:8 - Behold Acts 4:37 - sold Romans 12:13 - Distributing Hebrews 6:10 - which
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And laid them down at the apostles' feet,.... Showing great veneration and respect to the apostles, and a sort of neglect and contempt of their worldly substance; and signifying that they entirely delivered them to the apostles, and subjected them to their disposal:
and distribution was made unto every man, according as he had need; though they had all things in common, yet there was an order observed; a man might not go to the common stock and take out of it what he would; but as all was committed to the care of the apostles, and was in their power; the distribution was made by them, to every man, to the original proprietors, as well as to others, and that not as much as a man would have, or he might crave; but as much as he needed, for the present, of which the apostles were the judges.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And laid them down ... - That is, they committed the money received for their property to the disposal of the apostles, to distribute it as was necessary among the poor. This soon became a burdensome and inconvenient office, and they therefore appointed men who had special charge of it, Acts 6:1-2, etc.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 4:35. Laid - down at the apostles' feet — To show how cordially and entirely they parted with them. And they entrusted the management of the whole to those men to whom they found God had entrusted the gifts of his Holy Spirit, and the doctrine of the kingdom of heaven.
