“Whatever got into the hearts of Ananias and Sapphira to think God would wink at their self-aggrandizing scheme?! Somehow they must have persuaded themselves that the odds of incurring God’s wrath were so low that taking the risk made sense against the ‘benefits’ they expected to enjoy. Or maybe they simply didn’t even factor in the God-sees-us angle.”
Source: Panting, The Sin of Ananias and Sapphira, “Applying God’s Word to Me”
