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Acts 5 is the fifth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the growth of the early church and the obstacles it encountered. [1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke. [2]
The Death of Ananias, by Raphael, 1515, Raphael Cartoons. Ananias (/ ˌ æ n ə ˈ n aɪ. ə s /; Biblical Hebrew: חָנַנְיָהּ , romanized: Chānanyah) and his wife Sapphira (/ s ə ˈ f aɪ r ə /; סָפִירַה , Ṣafīrah) were, according to the biblical New Testament in Acts of the Apostles chapter 5, members of the early Christian church in Jerusalem.
According to Acts 5:1-11, a married couple (Ananias and Sapphira) died after transferring only part of the proceeds of the land they had sold to the early church. According to one interpretation, keeping property that belonged to everyone for oneself was a taboo here: [ 29 ] Anyone who kept back any of their property was "betraying" the Holy ...
The name "Acts of the Apostles" was first used by Irenaeus in the late 2nd century. It is not known whether this was an existing name for the book or one invented by Irenaeus; it does seem clear that it was not given by the author, as the word práxeis (deeds, acts) only appears once in the text (Acts 19:18) and there it refers not to the apostles but to deeds confessed by their followers.
Klaus Wachtel, “On the Relationship of the ‘Western Text’ and the Byzantine Tradition of Acts—A Plea Against the Text Type Concept,” in Novum Testamentum Graecum: Editio Critica Maior; The Acts of the Apostles, ed. Holger Strutwolf et al. (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2017), 3/3: 137–48, esp. 147.
[2] [5] Raymond E. Brown argued that while "it may not be true that every religious movement that is of human origin fails; nevertheless, the church would have been wiser many times in its history if it had used Gamaliel's principle to judge new developments in Christianity rather than reacting in a hostile manner too quickly." [1]
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Several passages, for example, Acts 9:1-9, Acts 18:10 and Acts 23:11 reveal a pneumatological element that shapes Paul's life bending towards following God's will. The book ends with Paul in a Roman prison, preaching the news of Jesus and the Holy Spirit to his guards and visitors ( Acts 27 :23-31).