New English Translation

Acts 5:7-15 New English Translation (NET)

7. After an interval of about three hours, his wife came in, but she did not know what had happened.

8. Peter said to her, “Tell me, were the two of you paid this amount for the land?” Sapphira said, “Yes, that much.”

9. Peter then told her, “Why have you agreed together to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of those who have buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out!”

10. At once she collapsed at his feet and died. So when the young men came in, they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

11. Great fear gripped the whole church and all who heard about these things.

12. Now many miraculous signs and wonders came about among the people through the hands of the apostles. By common consent they were all meeting together in Solomon’s Portico.

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

14. More and more believers in the Lord were added to their number, crowds of both men and women.

15. Thus they even carried the sick out into the streets, and put them on cots and pallets, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow would fall on some of them.