The Bible In Paintings: ✝️ ANANIAS & SAPPHIRA LIE AND DIE ✝️

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ANANIAS &
SAPPHIRA
LIE AND DIE

֎ Featuring 24 Paintings and 2 Reliefs ֎

A C T S
«Chapter 5»

Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property. With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.

1
JOSEF IGNACY KRASZEWSKI
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Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? YOU HAVE NOT LIED TO MEN BUT TO GOD.”

When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. Then the young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.

2
RAPHAEL
"The Death of Ananias"

3
MASACCIO
"La Morte di Anania"

4
AUGUSTIN HIRSCHVOGEL
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5
GERARD DE JODE
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6
JACQUES CALLOT
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7
AUBIN VOUET
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8
JAN DE BISSCHOP
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10
GUSTAV DORÉ
"Death of Ananias"

11
JAN STEEN
"The Death of Ananias"

12
"The Death of Ananias"

13
ALEXEI ALEXEYEVICH KHARLAMOV
"The Punishment of Ananias and Sapphira"

14
AGOSTINO VENEZIANO
"Ananias Lying in Convulsions"

15
"Ananias Drops Dead"

About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened. Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?”

“Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”

Peter said to her, “How could you agree to test the Spirit of the Lord? Look! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”

At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. GREAT FEAR SEIZED THE WHOLE CHURCH AND ALL WHO HEARD ABOUT THESE EVENTS.

16
JACQUES BERGÉ
"The Death of Saphira"

17
JEAN PESNE
"La Mort de Saphira"

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19
MAARTEN VAN HEEMSKERCK
"Peter questioning Sapphira, who then dies too,
Sapphira carried away and buried by young men,
Ananias carried away and buried by young men" Source

20
NICOLAS POUSSIN
"The Death of Sapphira"

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AMBROSIUS FRANCKEN I
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AMBROSIUS FRANCKEN THE ELDER
"The Death of Sapphira"

23
SEBASTIEN II LE CLERC
"The Death of Sapphira, Wife of Ananias"

24
English School
"Death of Sapphira"

25
NICOLAS POUSSIN
"Saphira’s Death"

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26
RONCALLI
"Death of Saphira"

New International Version ©1984, Abrgd, EMPHASES added
Masthead Painting: “THE HAND OF GOD” by Yongsung Kim

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[Bob434]

The coins in 11 Jan Steen seem like you could reach into the painting a pluck them off the canvas. I wonder how many virtual coins I’ve held back from God and lied to him about it- food for thought I guess.

[etabeta]

Good morning, Dan.
#10 Dore’
#13 Kharlamov
#16 Berge’ nice terracotta relief
#25 Poussin

[Hebrews 11:6]

I wonder how many virtual coins I’ve held back from God and lied to him about it

When I am confessing my latest sin(s) to God, it helps me to realize that none of this is news to God. He already knows me inside and out.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Hi, Alba! Happy Day-365-in-our-countdown-to-next-Easter.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Sounds like a “10% for the big guy” sort of deal ...

[Big Red Badger]

Always seemed rather harsh.
Am I wrong?

[spankalib]

Always seemed rather harsh. Am I wrong?

Probably.

I've learned to just trust (that God is doing things justly, correctly) when I don't understand, or things seem "harsh".

It's like that iconic photo of the Vietnamese guy getting shot in the head - the photo the left used to gin up opposition to the war...

...turns out, he had just led a massacre of a village, slaughtering women and children.

[Hebrews 11:6]

It is harsh. So the question becomes, how does this harshness comport with God’s revealed attributes?

I suggest answers on several levels:

Superficial: everyone dies anyway

Penal: they deserved punishment

Sacrificial: they were made an example

Traditional: their fate emulated OT executions

[Big Red Badger]

After my post I reflected that God looks
On The Heart.
King David messed up but repented then
Solomon really fell-——

[Big Red Badger]

Thanks Dan.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Yes.

[Big Red Badger]

Am I Wrong?
.
Ain’t the first time
Just ask my Ex-wife!
Ha!

[InkStone]

Hello Dan, and hope everyone had a nice Easter.

Many fine paintings and reliefs here!

RE: the death of the couple; yes, God’s ways are far beyond our understanding. Trusting Him thru a terrible event is difficult; can we do it?

Thank You Dan!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

M' husband will tell you I am often wrong but rarely in doubt. :)

In this case it was not the fact that they gave only part of the money, that, as Peter pointed out to them was their own business. It was that they were treating God like a god. In pagan myth it was quite possible for humans to trick the gods. The gods could be deceived and outwitted. God is quite a different matter. He knows everything, sees everything and all the rest.

You do not treat God with rank disrespect.

Which they were doing. And they were doing it so they would be seen as "good" (for a certain value of "good") people.

It was a very self centered and ego driven desire and to achieve it they tried to treat God as if He was not Omnipotent.

The way it is worded it is not totally clear if God struck them down or just let them see exactly what they were going and that stopped their hearts.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Trusting Him thru a terrible event is difficult; can we do it?

I'm not troubled by His treatment of the dead couple, as I indicated. It's when it gets up-close and personal that I find the real challenge is joined.

[InkStone]

“when it gets up-close and personal that I find the real challenge is joined.”
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Not so hard when it’s someone else... but when it’s me, then it’s a struggle-

[SisterK]

I agree with you.
It was the Deception that led to their demise.

[SisterK]

there truly is a wide range of styles in the gallery today
very nice collection

thank you for hosting