Atti 4:35

35 e lo mettevano a’ piedi degli apostoli; e poi era distribuito a ciascuno, secondo ch’egli avea bisogno.

Atti 4:35 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 4:35

And laid them down at the apostles' feet
Showing great veneration and respect to the apostles, and a sort of neglect and contempt of their worldly substance; and signifying that they entirely delivered them to the apostles, and subjected them to their disposal:

and distribution was made unto every man, according as he had need;
though they had all things in common, yet there was an order observed; a man might not go to the common stock and take out of it what he would; but as all was committed to the care of the apostles, and was in their power; the distribution was made by them, to every man, to the original proprietors, as well as to others, and that not as much as a man would have, or he might crave; but as much as he needed, for the present, of which the apostles were the judges.

Atti 4:35 In-Context

33 E gli apostoli con gran forza rendevan testimonianza della risurrezion del Signor Gesù; e gran grazia era sopra tutti loro.

34 Poichè non vi era alcun bisognoso fra loro; perciocchè tutti coloro che possedevan poderi, o case, vendendole, portavano il prezzo delle cose vendute,

35 e lo mettevano a’ piedi degli apostoli; e poi era distribuito a ciascuno, secondo ch’egli avea bisogno.

36 Or Giuseppe, soprannominato dagli apostoli Barnaba il che, interpretato, vuol dire: Figliuol di consolazione, Levita, Cipriota di nazione,

37 avendo un campo, lo vendè, e portò i danari, e li pose a’ piedi degli apostoli.