Acts 4:35
And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
KJV
καὶ ἐτίθουν παρὰ τοὺς πόδας τῶν ἀποστόλων· διεδίδετο δὲ ἑκάστῳ καθότι ἄν τις χρείαν εἶχεν.
Greek NT
et ponebant ante pedes Apostolorum. Dividebatur autem singulis prout cuique opus erat.
Vulgate
and laid them at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto each, according as any one had need.
ASV
And laid it down before the feet of the apostles. And distribution was made to every one, according as he had need.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
διαδίδωμι
diadidomi
verb · 3×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθότι
kathoti
conjunction · 6×
παρά
para
preposition · 191×
πούς
pous
noun · 91×
τίθημι
tithemi
verb · 99×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
χρεία
chreia
noun · 49×
ἀπόστολος
apostolos
noun · 79×
ἄν
an
particle · 165×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἕκαστος
ekastos
adjective · 84×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§20Love of neighbour, grounded in the love of God, is first and foremost a responsibility for each individual member of the faithful, but it is also a responsibility for the entire ecclesial community at every level: from the local community to the particular Church and to the Church universal in its entirety. As a community, the Church must practise love. Love thus needs to be or…
2. After the death of his father and mother he was left alone with one little sister: his age was about eighteen or twenty, and on him the care both of home and sister rested. Now it was not six months after the death of his parents, and going according to custom into the Lord's House, he communed with himself and reflected as he walked how the Apostles Matthew 4:20 left all an…
The Church of Christ possesses riches through the munificence of princes, and the liberality of the faithful, who have given their means to the Church. For the Church has need of such resources, and has had them from ancient times for the maintenance of things necessary. Now the true use of ecclesiastical goods was, and is now, to maintain the teaching of religion in schools an…
Cross-references
- 2Cor 8:20 — Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
- Acts 2:45 — And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.
- Acts 4:37 — Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
- Acts 5:2 — And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
- Acts 6:1 — And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.
- Rom 12:13 — Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.