Acts 5:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

Acts 5:3 —

Old words in this verse

ghost: — spirit, breath of life.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 23:24
Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Isaiah 29:15
Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
1 Peter 5:8
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
John 13:2
And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;
John 13:27
And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.

Topics

Baptism Comforter Communism Consolation Dead (people)Death Demons Devil

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-11)

The chapter begins with a melancholy but, which puts a stop to the pleasant and agreeable prospect of things which we had in the foregoing chapters; as every man, so every church, in its best state has its but. 1. The disciples were very holy, and heavenly, and seemed to be all exceedingly good; but there were hypocrites among them, whose hearts were not right in the sight of God, who, when they w…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3-6. why hath Satan filled--“why ... fill--“why hast thou suffered him to fill” thine heart--so criminally entertaining his suggestion? Compare Ac 5:4, “why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart?” And see Joh 13:2, 27. to lie to the Holy Ghost--to men under His supernatural illumination.