Actes 4:35

35 et le déposaient aux pieds des apôtres; et l'on faisait des distributions 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 Les apôtres rendaient avec beaucoup de force témoignage de la résurrection du Seigneur Jésus. Et une grande grâce reposait sur eux tous.

34 Car il n'y avait parmi eux aucun indigent: tous ceux qui possédaient des champs ou des maisons les vendaient, apportaient le prix de ce qu'ils avaient vendu,

35 et le déposaient aux pieds des apôtres; et l'on faisait des distributions à chacun selon qu'il en avait besoin.

36 Joseph, surnommé par les apôtres Barnabas, ce qui signifie fils d'exhortation, Lévite, originaire de Chypre,

37 vendit un champ qu'il possédait, apporta l'argent, et le déposa aux pieds des apôtres.