Acts 5:8

And Peter said unto her, Tell me whether you sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Yea, for so much. That is, for the same sum as Ananias mentioned. This the wife said, not knowing what had before happened to her husband. (Witham)

John Chrysostom

AD 407
But observe how Peter, instead of sending for her, waited till she entered; and how none of the others dared carry out the intelligence. Such the teacher's awfulness, such the disciples' reverence, such the obedience! An interval of three hours,— and yet the woman did not hear of it, and none of those present reported it, although there was time enough for it to be noised abroad; but they were afraid. This circumstance the Evangelist relates with wonder even, when he says, Not knowing what was done, came in.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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