“They Had All Things Common Among Them”

W. Cleon Skousen

This verse confirms that Jesus had taught the people how to set up a Zion society. As with the New Testament Saints, they had "all things in common," but this does not mean that they mingled their property together. As Peter explained to Ananias in Acts 5:4, each person kept his own property but the Saints voluntarily managed their property so they might be of the greatest assistance in solving the problems of one another. This is what it means to have "all things in common." What they actually did was to have their problems in common, and they all worked together to solve them.

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