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Acts 4:37

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Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.
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  1. Acts 4:34–35Rank 1 from verse 37
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    34Neither 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,

    35And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

  2. Acts 5:1–2Rank 2 from verse 37
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    1BUT a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

    2And 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.

  3. Matthew 19:29Rank 3 from verse 37
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    29And 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 life.

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Acts 4:37

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land

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Sense 1: The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region. Sense 2: To set or come on shore.

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laid

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Sense 1: Placed, set, put down, deposited, arranged, established, founded, imposed, applied, stored, buried, or overlaid. Sense 2: Reclined or brought to rest.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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apostles

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1. Persons sent or commissioned as messengers, including apostles of Christ or of the Lamb. 2. Persons who claim or present themselves as apostles without being true apostles.

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4:32And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

4:33And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

4:34Neither 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,

4:35And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

4:36And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus,

4:37Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

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