Selling their possessions and goods, they shared with anyone who was in need.
We often speak of the primitive church, and appeal to it, and to the history of it; in these verses we have the history of the truly primitive church, of the first days of it, its state of infancy indeed, but, like that, the state of its greatest innocence. I.
Commenting on Acts 2:42-47
And they continued daily with one accord in the temple,.... Every day they went up to the temple, at the time of prayer, or whenever any religious service was to be performed; this was their constant practice, and in this they agreed: and breaking bread from house to house; either administering the Lord's supper in private houses, as the Jews kept their passover, sometimes administering...
Verse 45. And sold. That is, they sold as much as was necessary in order to procure the means of providing for the wants of each other. Possessions. Property, particularly real estate. This word κτηματα refers, properly, to their fixed property, as lands, houses, vineyards, etc. The word rendered goods, υπαρξεις, refers to their personal or movable property. And parted them to all.