There was not a needy person among them, because those who were owners of land or houses were selling them, and bringing the proceeds of the sales

And Peter said to her, Give me an answer: was this amount of money the price of the land? And she said, Yes, it was.

Therefore God overlooked and disregarded the former ages of ignorance; but now He commands all people everywhere to repent [that is, to change their old way of thinking, to regret their past sins, and to seek God’s purpose for their lives],

And a large number of them, who had been involved in occultic practices, brought their books [on the occult] and began burning them publicly. When they calculated the cost [of the books] it came to fifty thousand pieces of silver. [Note: The actual amount was approximately years of a farm laborer's pay, or more than

The commander replied, “I bought this citizenship for a large amount of money.”

“But I was born a citizen,” Paul said.