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Acts 5 Bible study: All the words of this life

The angel said, "Go stand and speak in the temple" (5:20). The officers found "the guards standing before the doors" (5:23) and no one inside; then someone came and said the apostles were in the temple, "standing and teaching the people" (5:25): in Acts's Greek, one verb all three times.

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“Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ.”
Acts 5:42 · World English Bible

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“In Acts 5:23, the officers found the prison shut and locked, with the guards standing before the doors.”

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"But a certain man"

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Acts 4 ends with Joses, called Barnabas, who, "having a field, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet" (4:37). The next words are, "But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, and kept back part of the price, his wife also being aware of it, then brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet." (5:1-2). Here is what almost everyone misses: the chapter break comes between the two men. Acts tells them one after the other, joined by But, and the WEB tells both with the same words, laid it at the apostles’ feet (4:37, 5:2). Then Peter speaks: "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back part of the price of the land? While you kept it, didn’t it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn’t it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven’t lied to men, but to God." (5:3-4) (tap lie). Acts tells of Ananias's death in one verse (5:5). About three hours later Sapphira came in, "not knowing what had happened" (5:7), and Peter asked her, "How is it that you have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord?" (5:9). Acts tells of her death in one verse too (5:10). Then: "Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things." (5:11). Peter's words were said to Ananias and to Sapphira. These notes give no reason for the deaths beyond those words, and apply nothing here to anyone's giving today.

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The Greek word behind it

καταξιόωkataxioosay kat-ax-ee-O-o

Strong's: "to deem entirely deserving". Thayer: "to account worthy, judge worthy". "They therefore departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name." (5:41). Behind counted worthy is this one verb; suffer dishonor is another, ἀτιμάζω (G818), which Thayer gives as "to dishonor, insult". The New Testament has καταξιόω four times (counted in RP2018): Luke 20:35, Luke 21:36, here, and in a letter to the Thessalonians, "to the end that you may be counted worthy of God’s Kingdom, for which you also suffer" (2 Thessalonians 1:5).

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Acts 5 Bible study questions

  1. 1Peter says, "You haven’t lied to men, but to God." (5:4). What helps you be honest before God, and with the people you study with?
  2. 2The apostles departed "rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for Jesus’ name" (5:41). When have you seen someone keep their joy when following Jesus cost them something?
  3. 3"Every day, in the temple and at home, they never stopped teaching and preaching Jesus, the Christ." (5:42). What would help you speak of Jesus a little more, at home and beyond it?

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Last reviewed October 7, 2026. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Hebrew and Greek words are checked against the original-language texts and public-domain lexicons. What we believe · Favor home