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CHAPTER VII i A Warning Against Hypocrisy As the disciples proclaimed tlie tnitlis of the gospel in Jerusalem, God bore witness to their word, and a multitude believed. Many of these early believers were immediately cut off from family and friends by the zealous bigotry of the Jews, and it was necessary to provide them with food and shelter. The record declares, ''Neither was there any among them that lacked," and it tells how the need was tilled. Those among the believers who had money and possessions, cheerfully sacrificed them to meet the emergency. Selling their houses or tlieir lands, they brought the money, and laid it at "the apostles' feet, "and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need." This ■ liberality on the part of the believers was the result of the outpouring of the Spirit. The converts to the gospel were "of one heart and of one soul." One common interest controlled them, — the success of the mission entrusted to them; and covetThis chapter is based on Acts 4:32 to 5:11. (70)