Acts 4:31

The place was shaken, etc.] The physical phenomena of Pentecost (see Acts 2:3) were partly reproduced. They spake the word] They continued their public preaching to the people, and their private exhortations to the disciples, in spite of the opposition of the Jewish authorities.

32—C. Acts 5:16. The communism of the Church of Jerusalem. Barnabas, Ananias, and Sapphire.

32. Neither said any of them] This expression shows that the Church of Jerusalem recognised the principle of private property. A disciple's property really was his own, but he did not say that it was his own; he treated it as if it were common property. The Anabaptist principle that private property is unlawful, finds no real support in the Acts. The communism was voluntary.