Acts 4:37
Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
KJV
ὑπάρχοντος αὐτῷ ἀγροῦ πωλήσας ἤνεγκεν τὸ χρῆμα καὶ ἔθηκεν πρὸς τοὺς πόδας τῶν ἀποστόλων.
Greek NT
cum haberet agrum, vendidit eum, et attulit pretium, et posuit ante pedes Apostolorum.
Vulgate
having a field, sold it, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
ASV
Having land, sold it and brought the price and laid it at the feet of the Apostles.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πούς
pous
noun · 91×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
πωλέω
poleo
verb · 22×
τίθημι
tithemi
verb · 99×
φέρω
phero
verb · 68×
χρῆμα
chrema
noun · 6×
ἀγρός
agros
noun · 36×
ἀπόστολος
apostolos
noun · 79×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑπάρχω
uparcho
verb · 60×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: παρὰ | WH/Treg/RP: παρὰ | NIV: πρὸς
- παρὰ — SBLGNT
- παρὰ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
- πρὸς — Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
2 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…
Cross-references
- Acts 4:34 — Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
- Acts 4:34 — Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
- Acts 4:35 — And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
- Acts 5:1 — But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,
- 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.
- Matt 19:29 — And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting