Bible Game · Chapter 12

Ananias and Sapphira

It was a time when the early church sold fields and houses and laid the proceeds before the apostles. Ananias too, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of land — but he kept back part of the price and brought the rest, calling it the whole. The two are brought forward separately.

New Testament · Acts 5 · two of the early church

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The painting in this case

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) · c. 1515 · one of ten cartoons Pope Leo X commissioned from Raphael for tapestries to hang in the Sistine Chapel. Woven from these designs; now held at the V&A, London.

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