Ananias in Biblical History

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Who is Ananias?
ANANI'AS
(the Greek form of Hananiah, whom Jehovah has graciously given). 1. One of the professed converts to the Christian faith under the preaching of the apostles. Acts 5:1-10. When the disciples had thrown their property into a common stock, Ananias sold his estate and brought a part of the purchase-money, pretending it was the whole proceeds of the sale. Being charged by Peter with his sin, he fell down dead upon the spot. His wife Sapphira, who was privy to the fraud of her husband, but ignorant of his dreadful end, being asked for how much their estate had been sold, confirmed the falsehood which Ananias had told, and instantly met the same doom. 1. A primitive devout disciple who lived at Damascus, and was commissioned to visit Paul soon after his conversion and restore him to sight. Acts 9:10-18; Acts 23:12-16. Tradition makes him subsequently the bishop of Damascus, and a martyr. 2. The son of Nebedaeus, appointed high priest by Herod, king of Chalcis, a.d. 48. Acts 23:2. In a.d. 62 he was sent to Rome to answer a charge of oppression preferred against him by the Samaritans. He was, however, acquitted, returned, and resumed his office. Paul was tried before him, a.d. 55. He was likewise one of the apostle's accusers before Felix and before Festus. Acts 24:1; Acts 25:2. See Paul. He was shortly after deposed, but retained much power until at the breaking out of the Jewish war, when the Sicarii set fire to his house and compelled him to flee, but followed and killed him, a.d. 67 (Josephus, Jewish Wars, ii. 17, 9).

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