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
Unfamiliar words in this case
- apostle — one of the twelve Jesus appointed to lead the early church; the proceeds of sales were laid before them.
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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