English Standard Version

Acts 5:5-18 English Standard Version (ESV)

5. When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it.

6. The young men rose and wrapped him up and carried him out and buried him.

7. After an interval of about three hours his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

8. And Peter said to her, “Tell me whether you sold the land for so much.” And she said, “Yes, for so much.”

9. But Peter said to her, “How is it that you have agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Behold, the feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out.”

10. Immediately she fell down at his feet and breathed her last. When the young men came in they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

11. And great fear came upon the whole church and upon all who heard of these things.

12. Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico.

13. None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high esteem.

14. And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women,

15. so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them.

16. The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

17. But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy

18. they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison.