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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.
The narrative underlines the authority of Peter, who could see through the deception by Ananias and Sapphira (verses 3–5, 8–9) and highlights the spiritual authority of the "church" (Greek: ekklesia, first used in Acts in verse 11) in form of 'signs' of God (inducing 'great fear' in verses 5 and 11, as well as healing miracles in the next section). [6]
Ananias of Damascus (/ ˌ æ n ə ˈ n aɪ ə s / AN-ə-NY-əs; Ancient Greek: Ἀνανίας, romanized: Ananíās; Aramaic: ܚܢܢܝܐ, romanized: Ḥananyō; "favoured of the L ORD") was a disciple of Jesus in Damascus, mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles in the Bible, which describes how he was sent by Jesus to restore the sight of Saul of Tarsus (who later was called Paul the Apostle ...
Annas (also Ananus [1] or Ananias; [2] Hebrew: חָנָן, khanán; Koinē Greek: Ἅννας, Hánnas; 23/22 BC – death date unknown, [3] probably around AD 40) was appointed by the Roman legate Quirinius as the first High Priest of the newly formed Roman province of Judaea in AD 6 – just after the Romans had deposed Archelaus, Ethnarch of Judaea, thereby putting Judaea directly under ...
Ananias son of Nedebeus, first century CE high priest of the Jewish Sanhedrin, who presided during the trial of Paul at Jerusalem and Caesarea; Ananias and Sapphira, members of the first Christian community, who were struck dead for lying to God; Ananias of Damascus or St. Ananias II, missionary, martyr, and patron of St. Paul
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.
Ananias and Sapphira ; Seven Greeks appointed ; The Stoning of Stephen ; Preaching of Philip the Evangelist ; Simon the Sorcerer ; Paul's Conversion on the Road to Damascus ; Peter's vision of a sheet with animals ; Conversion of Cornelius ; James, son of Zebedee executed
Jesus ben Ananias ("the son of Ananias" [rendered as the "son of Ananus" in the Whiston translation]) [1] was a plebeian farmer, who, according to Flavius Josephus' The Wars of the Jews, four years before the First Jewish-Roman War, begun in 66 AD went around Jerusalem prophesying the city's destruction. The Jewish leaders of Jerusalem turned ...