Act 5:2-3 | JFB | STEP | 2. kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it —The coolness with which they planned the deception aggravated the guilt of this couple. brought a certain part —pretending it to be the whole proceeds of the sale.

Acts 5:2-3

2. kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it—The coolness with which they planned the deception aggravated the guilt of this couple.

brought a certain part—pretending it to be the whole proceeds of the sale.

3-6. why hath Satan filled—"why . . . fill—"why hast thou suffered him to fill"

thine heart—so criminally entertaining his suggestion? Compare Ac 5:4, "why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart?" And see Joh 13:2, 27.

to lie to the Holy Ghost—to men under His supernatural illumination.