Ananias of Jerusalem

When did Ananias die?

Ananias of Jerusalem is dated d. c. 33 in the archive, which places Ananias in the Apostolic Age (AD 4–70). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.

Which early sources mention Ananias?

Ananias of Jerusalem is named in 2 primary-source passages catalogued here, drawn from Luke and John Chrysostom. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Ananias from?

The archive associates Ananias of Jerusalem with Jerusalem.

Who were Ananias’ contemporaries?

The archive links Ananias of Jerusalem to 3 other figures, including Sapphira, Simon Peter and Barnabas of Cyprus. Each connection is drawn from a source that places them together, not from inference.

But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

The writer is now about to relate the affair of Ananias and Sapphira, and in order to show that the man’s sin was of the worst description, he first mentions him who performed the virtuous deed; that, there being so great a multitude all doing the same, so great grace, so great miracles, he, taught by none of these, but blinded by covetousness, brought destruction upon his own head. … The aggravating circumstance was, that the sin was concerted, and none other saw what was done. … He that has chosen to sell his goods and distribute them, and then withdraws them, is guilty of sacrilege. … “We neither obliged thee to sell,” the Apostle says, “nor to give thy money when thou hadst sold; of thine own free choice thou didst it; why hast thou then stolen from the sacred treasury?” … This history touches Bishops too, and very forcibly.