Acts Chapter 5 verse 5 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 5:5

And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost: and great fear came upon all that heard it.
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BBE Acts 5:5

And at these words, Ananias went down on the earth, and his life went from him: and great fear came on all who were present.
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DARBY Acts 5:5

And Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and expired. And great fear came upon all who heard [it].
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KJV Acts 5:5

And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things.
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WBT Acts 5:5


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WEB Acts 5:5

Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.
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YLT Acts 5:5

and Ananias hearing these words, having fallen down, did expire, and great fear came upon all who heard these things,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. - Upon all that heard it for on all them that heard these things, A.V. and T.R. Gave up the ghost (ἐξέψυξε). The same word as in ver. 10 and Acts 12:23, but found nowhere else in the New Testament. Great fear, etc. We have here an example of punishment which is remedial, not to the person punished, but to others, by displaying the just judgment of God as a warning against sin.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Ananias hearing these words fell down.--It is to be noted that St. Peter's words, while they press home the intensity of the guilt, do not contain any formal sentence. In such a case we may rightly trace that union of natural causation and divine purpose which we express in the familiar phrase that speaks of "the visitation of God" as a cause of death. The shame and agony of detection, the horror of conscience not yet dead, were enough to paralyse the powers of life. Retribution is not less a divine act because it comes, through the working of divine laws, as the natural consequence of the sin which draws it down. It was necessary, we may reverently say, that this special form of evil, this worst corruption of the best, should be manifestly condemned on its first appearance by a divine judgment. And we must remember that there is a silence which we may not dare to break as to all but the visible judgment. The dominant apostolic idea of such punishments was that men were delivered to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus (1Corinthians 5:5). St. Peter himself speaks of those who are "judged according to men in the flesh," who yet "live according to God in the spirit" (1Peter 4:6).