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.