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About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. Peter asked her, “Did you people sell your land for such and such a price?”

“Yes,” she replied, “we did.”

And Peter said, “How could you and your husband even think of doing a thing like this—conspiring together to test the Spirit of God’s ability to know what is going on?[a] Just outside that door are the young men who buried your husband, and they will carry you out too.”

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 5:9 to test the Spirit of God’s ability to know what is going on, literally, “to try the Spirit of the Lord.”

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