Actes 4:35

35 Ils le mettaient aux pieds des apôtres; et on le distribuait à chacun selon qu'il en avait besoin.

Actes 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.

Actes 4:35 In-Context

33 Et les apôtres rendaient témoignage, avec beaucoup de force, de la résurrection du Seigneur Jésus; et une grande grâce était sur eux tous.

34 Car il n'y avait aucun indigent parmi eux; parce que tous ceux qui possédaient des terres ou des maisons, les vendaient, et apportaient le prix de ce qu'ils avaient vendu.

35 Ils le mettaient aux pieds des apôtres; et on le distribuait à chacun selon qu'il en avait besoin.

36 Ainsi Joses, surnommé par les apôtres Barnabas, c'est-à-dire, fils de consolation, Lévite et originaire de Cypre,

37 Ayant un champ, le vendit, et en apporta le prix, et le mit aux pieds des apôtres.