<p>5:3 <i>And Peter said: Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart</i>- Peter could plead with men, both in and out of the Faith, with a credibility that lay in his ready acceptance of his failures, and his evident acceptance of his Lord&rsquo;s gracious forgiveness and teaching. Consider how he tells Ananias that Satan has filled his heart (Acts 5:3), alluding to what everyone full well knew: that Satan had desired to have him too, and in the denials he had pretty well capitulated (Lk. 22:31,32). Peter&rsquo;s disciplining of Ananias, so soon after his own deference to the pressures of Satan as opposed to those of the Lord, would have been done surely in subdued, saddened and introspective tones.</p><p><em>To lie to the Holy Spirit</em>- Gk. 'to deceive'. See on 5:2 <em>Kept back</em>.</p><p><em>A</em><i>nd to keep back part of the proceeds of the land?-</i> To make the generosity look credible, the amount they kept was probably not that great. And yet people betray their Lord and throw away their eternal life for very small sums of money.</p>