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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Sapphira (Woman living at the time of the New Testament)
She and her husband Ananias sold property and lied to the apostles about how much they were giving. Peter put the same question to her that he had put to him, and she did not know Ananias was already dead.
She and her husband Ananias sold property and lied to the apostles about how much they were giving. Peter put the same question to her that he had put to him, and she did not know Ananias was already dead.
Sapphira conspired with her husband Ananias to sell property and lie to the apostles about donating the full proceeds, and when Peter confronted her with the same question he'd put to her husband, unaware Ananias was already dead, she repeated the lie and immediately died the same way.
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- Acts 5:1
