 following Jesus and not being able to support this because that wasn't even possible in the history of the time. But now that they are connected with the church, they want to make up for lost time, as it were, to begin to sell property and houses, to care for those around them. And so many who had gathered up a wealth for themselves have been blessed in that way. God used them and their position to now bless the early church, to care for the people in it.