Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Were together (hsan epi to auto). Some MSS. hsan kai (were and). But they were together in the same place as in Acts 2:1.
And had (kai eixon). Imperfect active, kept on having, a habit in the present emergency.
Common (koina). It was not actual communism, but they held all their property ready for use for the common good as it was needed (Acts 4:32). This situation appears nowhere else except in Jerusalem and was evidently due to special conditions there which did not survive permanently. Later Paul will take a special collection for the poor saints in Jerusalem.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 2:44:
Luke 12:33
Acts 1:15
Acts 2:42
Acts 4:32
Acts 6:2
Acts 10:14
Romans 14:14
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